The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

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