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.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

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.

The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

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