Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.

Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.