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It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.