“ For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ”

“ Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. ”

“ The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. ”

“ Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ”

“ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

“ Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ”

“ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ”

“ You cannot open a book without learning something. ”

“ The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. ”

“ Study the past if you would define the future. ”

“ If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor. ”

“ Of all things, I liked books best. ”