Thought is impossible without words.

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.

If you knew what I was, Ash, you would not like me either.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.