- Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- 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.
- We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
- The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
- Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- We only think when we are confronted with problems.
- Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
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