True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission

People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit.

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.

The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

I'm gonna have nightmares about kids eating free.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.