Passion, Like Discriminating Taste, Grows On Its

Surely Knowledge Of The Natural World, Knowledge Of The Human Condition, Knowledge Of The Nature And Dynamics Of Society, Knowledge Of The Past So That One May Use It In Experiencing The Present And Aspiring To The Future--all Of These, It Would Seem Reasonable To Suppose, Are Essential To An Educated Man. To These Must Be Added Another--knowledge Of The Products Of Our Artistic Heritage That Mark The History Of Our Esthetic Wonder And Delight.

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.

Apollo Without Dionysus May Indeed Be A Well-informed, Good Citizen But He's A Dull Fellow. He May Even Be 'cultured,' In The Sense One Often Gets From Traditionalist Writings In Education. . . . But Without Dionysus He Will Never Make And Remake A Culture.

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 Used Depend On The Particular Social And Cultural Setting.

The Foundations Of Any Subject May Be Taught To Anybody At Any Age In Some Form.