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

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.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

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

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

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