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

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

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.

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

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.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

Agency presupposes choice.