The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

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.

How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.