I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.