The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

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 think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

My mom and I have always had issues.

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

I wouldn’t be without my regular schedule of chiropractic adjustments because of my very strenuous schedule.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.