The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

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.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

One of those heavenly days that cannot die.