Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Diamonds are the result of extreme pressures. So is success.

You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

War is a profane thing.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.