Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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.

If our Christianity doesn’t work at home, it doesn’t work.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.