Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.