The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is….

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..

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the ch….

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves..

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form..

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits..

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

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, dis….

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence..

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education..

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think..

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. B….

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity..

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of ….

The fish will be the last to discover water..

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product..

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life..

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action..

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways..

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….

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us..