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.

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.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

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

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.