The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.

By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.