Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.