We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.