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.

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

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

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.

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation