To understand is to invent.

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

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

I could not think without writing.

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.