A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education is the great engine to personal development.
Make education a continuing, never-ending process.
I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.