A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.