On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

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

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.