Bertrand Russell Quotes

I love teaching; I love little kids.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

I had an amazing childhood.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,' they said. 'I'm touring college towns with my garage band.' We were dumbfounded. It was like they were from another planet. Where had they found the derring-do? What would they do about car payments? We got together for going away drinks on their final day and tried to hide our envy while reminding ourselves that we still had the freedom and luxury to shop indiscriminately.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

I beg young people to travel.