“ but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
“If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.”