Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

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.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.