By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

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.

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.