A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.'[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

When people tell you that you are good for nothing, remember that God made the world from nothing and nothing can change into something anytime.

An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience.

You can kiss me if you like, " she said.Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona, " he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.