Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I'm in control, liberated and free, when I'm on my bike.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

That has always been it for me: family first.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.