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

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.

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.

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.

Slaves in the past were captured by force

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

How can you not like Britney Spears?

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.

A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?