Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

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

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.

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.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.