The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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.

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

For every day spent at a job, you empty your life

Like a rose bud, my heart always desires to bloom and spread the fragrance of love, beauty, and kindness of mankind.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.