Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

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.

As long as Simon didn’t think about the past, the past couldn’t hurt him. But, increasingly, he couldn’t help himself.There was too much pleasure in the pain.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

We may never pick up a paintbrush or sculpt a masterpiece, but each one of us—without exception—is an artist in our own way.

My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

No one is ever going to be as good as I was

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.