"...when [the teachers] have explained, by means of words, all those subjects that they profess to teach, and even the science of virtue and wisdom, then those who are called pupils consider within themselves whether what has been said is true. This they do by gazing at that interior truth, so far as they are able. Then it is that they learn."
   -- St. Augustine, quoted in The boy Adeodatus: the portrait of a lucky young bastard p.167, by Bernard Smith, Allen Lane 1984.

"The issues considered in the paper include the capacity of all to learn, the distinction between learning as understanding and learning as information, the interaction between the communication and content of ideas, the tension between perception and content in communication between persons, and the human functions of a love of learning. In teaching, the creation of a fear-free environment is emphasised, as is the use of analogy as a means of breaking out of one discipline and making connections with another, with mathematics and history being used as a possible example."

"In a manner analogous to ethical integrity, integrity in inquiry, knowledge, learning and teaching is seen as arising from a preparedness to submit oneself to a larger intellectual whole, in which one might say that individual preference is secondary to a 'transcending state of affairs'. Some suggestions are made to help towards progressing the ideals of integrity in teaching and learning, with some discussion in relation to specific disciplines."