During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Sometimes the best results come when you are thrown in the deep end.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.