"Increasingly, we will cease to focus on learning as preliminary
and see it threaded through other layers of experience, offering
one of life's great pleasures." "The capacity to enjoy, to value
one experience over another, is the precondition of the capacity
to learn." "Looking, listening and learning offer the modern
equivalent of moving through life as a pilgrimage." "It is hard
to think of learning more fundamental to the shape of society
than learning whether to trust or distrust others." "Human
beings construct meaning as spiders make webs." "The solution is
to take responsibility for the choice of metaphors, to savor
them and ponder their suggestions, above all to live with many
and take no one metaphor as absolute." "School casts a shadow on
all subsequent learning. Trying to understand learning by
studying schooling is rather like trying to understand sexuality
by studying bordellos." "Not only don't we know what we know, we
don't know what we teach." "Most of the learning of a lifetime,
including mu