Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Industrialize or perish.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.