Agency presupposes choice.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

Knowledge is justified belief.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

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.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.