But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.

You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.

To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

I love you Abang, so what? That is a human right. The fact that you do not love me, it is also human right. Abang ngga salah, tapi aku juga ngga salah, kan?

Money can bring the children into places of power and influence

To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

You don't fall in love, you grow in love...If you fallen love, you can fall out of it. We'll let love grow.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

The road to the heart is the ear