“Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“You can't be a writer if you're not a reader.”