In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.