Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.