An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

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.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

No cheating, clean up your self-induced fear act, and replace it with what you love.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.