Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

If children have interest, then Education happens

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Knowledge is a power that you can borrow trust is a power which defines your inner strength.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Sacrifice is the most beautiful situation and solution for all social problems

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

I've always been a workhorse.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.