Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.