To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.

Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.