Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

If there’s any greater exhibit of the malleability of human nature than the sight of someone standing, absently waiting for the light to change at a deserted intersection, I don’t know what it is.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.