It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

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.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Be strong. There is hope in any situation.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.