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

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

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

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

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.