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.

Intelligence is not what you know but what you do when you don't know.

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

-- Pythagoras

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

-- Hypatia

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

-- Hypatia

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius

Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.

-- Xunzi