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A Continuing Conversation With Other Persons, With Cultural Products, And With Oneself, Is A Large Part Of What It Means To Be A Human Being, In Our Time And Perhaps In All Time.

Any Profession Should Have Norms Around The Issue You Raise. And, In The Words Of The Great Economic Thinker Albert Hirschman, We All Owe A Measure Of Loyalty To Professional Norms. But When The Norms Seem Unhelpful Or Unproductive, One Needs To Speak Up - To Activate Voice. And In The Extreme, If The Profession And One's Colleagues Seem Estranged From A Thoughtfully Selected Course Of Action, You Need To Consider The Possibility Of Exit. Of Course, If You Knowingly Violate Norms Or Laws, You Need To Be Prepared To Face The Consequences - Or To Lead A Revolution!

We've Got To Do Fewer Things In School. The Greatest Enemy Of Understanding Is Coverage... You've Got To Take Enough Time To Get Kids Deeply Involved In Something So They Can Think About It In Lots Of Different Ways And Apply It.

Being Creative Means First Of All Doing Something Unusual... On The Other Hand, However Unusual It May Be, The Idea Also Has To Be Reasonable For People To Take It Seriously.

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Try Estimating The Cost Of Ignorance.