The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.