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

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

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

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

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.

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.