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

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.

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!

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

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

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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.