"High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in."

"Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation."

"I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'."

"You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff."

"Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost."

"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."

"Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago."

"It should be mandatory that you understand computer science."