Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

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.

It is through hard work that time could be converted into greatness.

Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.

If you are too afraid of losing something, it means you didn’t care enough for it in the first place.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

I think it's important to always offer something new.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.