Experience precedes understanding.

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.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Abdication Isn’t Empowerment

Of this poetryI’m left with the emptinessof an endless secret

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

I'm an old-fashioned guy.

Some people are just right for you.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.