Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... but for me, education means making creators. You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

To understand is to invent.

When you teach a child something, you forever take away from him the pleasure and benefit of discovering it for himself.

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

If you want new ideas, read old books.

-- Ivan Pavlov