If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him.

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.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

Universe is a giant wave and mankind needs a giant breakwater: The science! It is the best jetty we ever have!

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.