He who seeks for a faultless brother will have to remain brotherless.
A town which has no school should be abolished.
Jerusalem was destroyed because the instruction of the young was neglected.
He who instructs a child is as if he had created it.
The teachers are the guardians of the State.
Learn first and philosophize afterward.
To what may he be compared who teaches a child? To one who writes on clean paper; and to what may he be compared who teaches an old man? To one who writes on blotted paper.
Be eager to acquire knowledge; it does not come to thee by inheritance.
Four dispositions are found among those who sit for instruction, before the wise, and they may be respectively compared to a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sieve; the sponge imbibes all, the funnel receives at one end and discharges at the other, the strainer suffers the wine to pass through, but retains the lees, and the sieve recovers the bran, but retains the fine flour.
To pray loudly is not a necessity of devotion; when we pray we must direct our hearts toward heaven.