Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

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.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don't start choking.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.