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.

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.

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

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.

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

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.