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.

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

a problem well put is half solved.

To me faith means not worrying.

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.