Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

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.

If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.

We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.