"Man is endogenous, and education is his..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.”

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”

“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”

“The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?”

“The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.”

“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”

“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”

“Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”