Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

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.

You will get what you wish for.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Tell tales out of school.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).