I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

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.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand...

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.