Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or of a lack of verbal interest is just f*cking lunatic.
Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity.
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.
I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.
We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.