The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

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

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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

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.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.