Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

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.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

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.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

The smallest of action is better than the greatest of intentions.

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?