This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.