Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.