Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

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.

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.

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.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

I don't like telephones.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.