The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

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.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone.He will only be gone from the school when none here or loyal to him, said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Once you take your foot off the gas, your life will elevate.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

There are parts of L.A. that feel very, very Mexican, and there are weird little enclaves of Northside in Mexico - Cancún for instance. So what is a border?