The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.