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

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

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.

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.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.