Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.