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.

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

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.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

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