In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

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.

Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.

Live for God. Live for your mother. Die for your gang. In that order.

Bruises from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party.

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."