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.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.