“Our responsibility, as educational and social scientists, is to understand, to the extent that is possible, the complex conditions of our mutual formation. We must understand our own contribution to creating and withholding the conditions of possibility of particular lives. We must constantly ask what it is that makes for a viable life and how we are each implicated in constituting the viability or non-viability of the lives of others.”

“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise; regardless of others, ever regardful of others; maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a (wo)man; stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse, and stuff’d with the stuff that is fine.”

“If reason is to be reasonable, it must see itself through the eyes of an ironical madness, not its opposite but its critical complement; if the individual is to assert himself, then he must do so with an ironical conscience of his own ego, or he will flounder is solipsism and pride.”

“The young minds who came to the field of the intellect with the inarticulate sense of a crusade, seeking rational answers to the problems of achieving a meaningful human existence, found a philisophical con game in place of guidance and leadership.”