I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.)

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.