As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

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.

Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.-Macon Ravenwood

When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.