What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

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.

What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

Whatever is... is best.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.