No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

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.

you are a person, not a shredder.so quit tearing yourself to shreds.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But while I'm doing vocal in a studio, I can't stand it.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.