Most Higher Education Is Devoted To Affirming

Fear Is Not A Good Teacher. The Lessons Of Fear Are Quickly Forgotten.

Worlds Can Be Found By A Child And An Adult Bending Down And Looking Together Under The Grass Stems Or At The Skittering Crabs In A Tidal Pool.

When Any Relationship Is Characterized By Difference, Particularly A Disparity In Power, There Remains A Tendency To Model It On The Parent-child-relationship. Even Protectiveness And Benevolence Toward The Poor, Toward Minorities, And Especially Toward Women Have Involved Equating Them With Children.

Rarely Is It Possible To Study All Of The Instructions To A Game Before Beginning To Play, Or To Memorize The Manual Before Turning On The Computer. The Excitement Of Improvisation Lies Not Only In The Risk Of Being Involved But In The New Ideas, As Heady As The Adrenaline Of Performance, That Seems To Come From Nowhere.

Of Any Stopping Place In Life, It Is Good To Ask Whether It Will Be A Good Place From Which To Go On As Well As A Good Place To Remain.