People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.