The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

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.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

Tahtahta-ha-ha' clattered the wheels. A lamp outside the window nodded to him. Another. A third. The lamps ceased to wink. Night without winking clung to the windows.("Adam")

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.