To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.