The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Industrialize or perish.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

When you know better you do better.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

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