Yi-Fu Tuan

"The ease with which a man can lose his sense of self-worth and fall into the pit of self-abasement is a deeply disturbing psychological fact. Asymmetry of power doesn’t have to be extreme for it to ha…"

"To forgive is to erase a past, depriving it of its power to stain the present."

"...the Oxford system, which did not require students to take set courses or be tested except at the end of three years, encouraged them to read widely, attend public lectures on all sorts of subjects,…"

"Young children distinguish between good people and bad people, but, unless explicitly taught, they do not distinguish between foreigner and native."

"Children learn early in life that they cannot always count on their parents’ attention much less their smiles, a lesson in human unpredictability that has to be learned over and over again."

"We have no trouble naming the basic physical needs of food, shelter, and sex, nor the basic social needs of care, respect, and love. Can there also be a spiritual need that goes beyond even love as it…"

"Experience takes time and calls for patience."

"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about the Professor from June 24th, 2007."