The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

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.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.