The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

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.

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!