"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
"To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
"When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready. The teacher will Disappear."
"The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence."
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."