Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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 an affair of ‘telling’ and being told, but an active and constructive process.
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not ‘in’ that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
Instruction is important.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
To me faith means not worrying.