When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

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.

If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.

Be thankful.Be grateful.Be joyful.

I don’t fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.