What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.