Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

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.

When I asked for help, no one is there except me. "Helping yourself is a great help you ever get it from anyone".

I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.