I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

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.

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

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.

To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.

No matter how cold your proverbial winter, you can plant seeds of change in your life by changing your thoughts and actions.

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.