The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.