One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

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.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.