If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers