Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

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.

People fall in love with you not because they admire you, it is because they found their desires inside of you.

The joy of writing is the fullness of existence.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.