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 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.

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

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.

I need you both to trust me, " Vincent said. "I don't mean that I would like you to trust me. I mean that I need you to trust me.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded!

The point to me is not what Donald Trump is saying because we keep reacting to just things he says in his tweets. What he is doing is important.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.