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

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

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.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can continue to do those things. It could be as a scientist, an educator, an editor, a journalist, the founder of an organization. You only live once, and it is a tragedy if you deny yourself these options without trying to pursue them.