Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

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 broken is to try break a law

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

Wise judges are we of each other!

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics