The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Knowledge is justified belief.

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

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

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