“Kids learn not so much from what they're taught as from what they do.”

“....You all have another month to encourage these kids to do what they do best-""Not just what they do best!" E.D. protested.Jake nodded. "If that's all they do, how will they ever find out the rest of who they are?”

“How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.”

“Hal...cleared his throat."....Doing the hard stuff's what makes it an adventure.”

“Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.”

“Every living thing is a spirit.”

“She had s feeling the adults were going to let the kids do whatever they could think of short of murder and mayhem.She remembered a term from a program she had seen on television: plausible deniability. This way, if things went wrong somehow, the adults could all say they hadn't known about any of it.”