We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.

I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

Stay in the game until the end of time.