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The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

I believe that children should not be made to work.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.