Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country, one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years.

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.