Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

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

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Great, ' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

Suddenly I feel anything is possible

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.