Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

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.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

I have yet to meet a person whose favorite movie is Gigli, but I hope to meet them one day and give them a hug.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

Use the Internet to get off the Internet!

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.