Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
Play is the work of childhood.
Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration
There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing to me, and still is. And the other way is to go out. I knew there would be problems from my family, and also from my environment. But I thought that physical pain would be better than the mental pain. And I started working as an artist.
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in human consciousness, nothing will change for the better, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed will be unavoidable.
Remorse is the pain of sin.
The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.