Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.

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.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

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

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

The fish will be the last to discover water.