It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.