Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.