Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

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.

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

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.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

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