Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

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.

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.

You'll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.