The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

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.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.