I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."