At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.

I used to be more glamorous.

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.