We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

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

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.