You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.