“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or...”

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

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

“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”

“Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.”

“Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures”

“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”

“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.”