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I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

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

It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them.