Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.