Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

Take all of me, ” he said against her mouth.

I just looked at the calendar and realized- my days are numbered

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldnt bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

I don't ever want to let people down, so a lot of my energy goes to making people laugh and letting them know how much I care for them.

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!