Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ”

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ”

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. ”

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ”

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. ”

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ”

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ”