I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.