Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

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.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

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.