A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

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.

You're a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.