The highest result of education is tolerance.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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