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.

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

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

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.

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

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

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.