​Create a challenging, yet safe environment in which students may question everything, while developing both their capacity for wonder and practical skills to locate increasingly adequate answers.

Invite students to apply what they learn to their own lives, emphasizing the relevance of any idea to their work, relationships, and worldview. All education implies transformation; when one learns something, one is simply not the same as before.

In the spirit of the adage “all knowledge is self-knowledge,” provide students opportunities to reflect upon their own ideas, feelings, and values while examining features of their worlds.

Foster an interdisciplinary approach to discovery, one that does not erect artificial boundaries between fields of study or activity. Because every discipline's grasp of any phenomenon is partial, perspectives and methods for inquiry should be multiplied.

Maintain a “jury's still out” attitude toward theoretical closure, in the recognition that there's always more to learn. All explanations, no matter how elegant or authoritative, should be regarded as tentative.

Cultivate an openness to new knowledge regardless of its historical and cultural remove from familiar notions of the world. Only by drawing upon the widest diversity of approaches to life's challenges can people transcend their present horizon of understanding.

Promote the awareness that one’s way of looking has everything to do with what one sees.

Analytical and interpretive dexterity can be organized around any topic at all, so nothing is out of bounds, and every subject matter may yield great gains in learning.

Inspect the taken-for-granted elements of life, so that actions may be based on free choice, rather than mere force of habit or rote tradition. Such an approach results in an uncommon attention to, and a heightened sense of responsibility for, behavior and its consequences.