Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint 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.

The principle of God is love

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

Do not evaluate things when you feel happiness

I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.