Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.

A painting is never finished; it simply stops in interesting places.

-- Jan van Eyck

Friends are companions on a journey who ought to help each other persevere on the road to a happier life.

-- Pythagoras

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

-- Pythagoras

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

-- Hypatia

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

-- Hypatia

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

-- William James