Hunger not to have, but to be

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.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.