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

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

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

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