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

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

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.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.