How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

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.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

There is moderation in everything.

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.