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.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

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

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.

Knowledge is justified belief.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

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.