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.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

To understand is to invent.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

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

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.