If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy read more

There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is read more

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice read more

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.