Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.