I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

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.

Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them.

You came here with love so live with passion and love everyone.

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

Choose love. Teach love. And never lose your curiosity.