Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Education is really bread and butter citizenship. It is just necessary to the developing of citizens that can perform their duties properly.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Every head should be cultivated.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.