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

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

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.

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."

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.