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

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

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

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

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

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

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.