Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

Experience precedes understanding.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

I could not think without writing.