Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.

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.

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

Have the courage

A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences.

Live with compassion, work with confidence, and create opportunities for others to conquer the world.

It took me a long time to realise that mothers are women who carry youAnd not necessarily in their womb.

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

Are they even capable of love?

I always take a cold shower to wake me up and close my pores. Then I moisturize my face.

I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.