Grasping The Structure Of A Subject Is

We Are Storytelling Creatures, And As Children We Acquire Language To Tell Those Stories That We Have Inside Us.

Good Teaching Is Forever Being On The Cutting Edge Of A Child's Competence.

We Cannot, Even Given Our Most Imaginative Efforts, Construct A Concept Of Self That Does Not Impute Some Causal Influence Of Prior Mental States On Later Ones.

Teaching Is The Canny Art Of Intellectual Temptation

Surely Knowledge Of The Natural World, Knowledge Of The Human Condition, Knowledge Of The Nature And Dynamics Of Society, Knowledge Of The Past So That One May Use It In Experiencing The Present And Aspiring To The Future--all Of These, It Would Seem Reasonable To Suppose, Are Essential To An Educated Man. To These Must Be Added Another--knowledge Of The Products Of Our Artistic Heritage That Mark The History Of Our Esthetic Wonder And Delight.