“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 do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”

“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

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

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”

“There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”