Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.

The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.

Art is literacy of the heart

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.