Nature has always had more force than education.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I need physics more than friends.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

They know enough who know how to learn.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

I love the sea.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.