The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Dare to think for yourself.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

A witty saying proves nothing.