Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

God is exist within us.

Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we're not united as a country.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.