I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.