The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

I felt free and therefore I was free.

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It’s hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)

Be a doer and not a critic.