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

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.

There is no learning without remembering.

Let the questions be the curriculum.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.