The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

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.

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.

Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."