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

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

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.

Agency presupposes choice.

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.