Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.