The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Your library is your paradise.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don’t know its importance at all.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
It is better to learn late than never.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Books, the children of the brain.
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
