In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

If you can’t be yourself with a man, you can’t be with that man.

We must change to master change.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.