I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

The online education space, especially in higher education, is ripe for disruption.

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.