Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

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.

Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.