The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.