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.

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

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

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.

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

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

The fish will be the last to discover water.