Mike Miley:

Not every truth ought to be lived with. Some truths must be overcome.

Ken Caldeira:

The class of things that we think we know but don't is bigger than we think.

Garret Keizer:

What Deborah Ball and Magdalene Lampert want teachers to understand is that being wrong is an integral part of mapping the terrain.

John Allemang:

It's always a balance. But just because we've got it wrong now doesn't mean we can't start to get it right.

Peter Stone, a political theorist at Trinity College, Dublin:

Sometimes, the danger of bad reasons is bigger than the loss of the possibility of good reasons.

Jonah Peretti:

When you think about the media industry, it's also, "How do you reach people and how do you get people to understand?" If you write something and nobody understands it, it's easy to be, like, "Oh those are all the dumb people." Sometimes writing something that's very sophisticated and difficult and technical for a particular audience is totally fine, but you should be able to communicate in simple language.

The thing is, there are dangers in this, because you can also explain something in a way that makes people feel like they understand it when they actually don't.

You can figure out a way to frame something and explain it so that it feels like it confirms what people already believe, including incorrect things they believe.