A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

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.

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #‎ LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

I was a man by middle school.

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

The worst decision is indecision.