27 Quotes by Daniel Greenberg

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.