Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

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.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

We have life. That's what's beautiful.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.