The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

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.

Have you found your Christmas spirit yet? he asked as they drove by Broslin Square. The decorations were out of control. "This place would make Liberace feel underdressed.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.

People always remember the second half.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.