Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

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.

Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.

Wherever you are, smile with love like a flower.

My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I’m seconds away from igniting.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

The expression of truth is simplicity.