The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

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.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

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

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.