- Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
- Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
- The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.
- Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
- Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose..
- It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
- Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.
- Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.
- A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
- At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
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