-In this episode: Ideas aren't dangerous. An idea is little more than a collection of words, a little packet of information, a plaything. An idea believed: now that is dangerous.

-In this episode: The wheel of fortune isn't intended to tell us that some of us will win and some will lose; it's trying to give us a big picture in which each of our lives might come to be seen as a meaningful part of a whole.

-In this episode: It's a satisfying thing to shop at the bazaar of ideas, outfitting our internal spaces with just the right accoutrements. It is how we find our home in the world, and how we make it comfortable. It is how we make it uniquely our own. The spirit of le

-In this episode: Our acorn grows with no urging from us if we allow it sufficient room; the strength that we derive from our passion clears the space for it, and protects it while it grows. The more unabashedly we claim our passion, the more fully we become who we we

-In this episode: The spirit of education insists that we clear the road ahead of us of the roadblocks that stand in our way. We can learn our way out of the nihilism, the despair, the depression, the consumerism, the addiction: whatever form of mental blocks we've pu

-In this episode: Education isn't a process of being told what to think at the hands of experts. It is stepping out into the unknown territory of ourselves. It is in every way the Hero's Journey.

-In this episode: There is a sort of bliss that can come when one is on just the right path of learning. When one is on the path of bliss, things happen just as they are supposed to. Serendipities abound. Circumstances that couldn't have been organized ahead of time m

-In this episode: The day-to-day things we do in schools might be used toward the ends of freedom; they can also be used toward the ends of domination. Every interaction in schools places students within political contexts. It puts them in categories of haves or have-

-In this episode: True education isn't merely a preparation for life. Education is a process of life itself.

-In this episode: Our inner, emotional nature is the basis of the meaning that our learning both depends upon and fuels. Without it, we become unbalanced between head and heart, and our learning can lead to the dead end of nihilism.