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.

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.

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.

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.