To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.