The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

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.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.

I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike. That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . . Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Faith - seeing your husband as Jesus sees him.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.