Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Experience precedes understanding.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.

People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.