The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus

I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.