Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.