The Foundations Of Any Subject May Be

Grasping The Structure Of A Subject Is Understanding It In A Way That Permits Many Other Things To Be Related To It Meaningfully. To Learn Structure In Short, Is To Learn How Things Are Related.

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.

In Reference To Right Answers - Knowing Is A Process, Not A Product.

Organizing Facts In Terms Of Principles And Ideas From Which They May Be Inferred Is The Only Known Way Of Reducing The Quick Rate Of Loss Of Human Memory.

There Is, Perhaps, One Universal Truth About All Forms Of Human Cognition: The Ability To Deal With Knowledge Is Hugely Exceeded By The Potential Knowledge Contained In Man's Environment. To Cope With This Diversity, Man's Perception, His Memory, And His Thought Processes Early Become Governed By Strategies For Protecting His Limited Capacities From The Confusion Of Overloading. We Tend To Perceive Things Schematically, For Example, Rather Than In Detail, Or We Represent A Class Of Diverse Things By Some Sort Of Averaged "typical Instance.