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I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.