Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

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.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places, ' Claire said, and sneezed.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

Control success before it controls you.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.