One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

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.

…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky, its petals of desire, its stamens of dreams…

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.