To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so much so, that it is inconceivable to them that they can, for long, be separated from their devices. Indeed, many of us who are not young, who are 'digital immigrants' rather than 'digital natives,' are also wedded to, if not dependent on, our digital devices.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

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

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.