“The student is to read history actively not passively.”
“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
“Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.”
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.”