Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.