Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

Play is a very important part, … Kindergarten education play is a way in which children learn. And children learn a lot of social skills through those things.

It’s certainly part of the same group-think. They’re doing the same thing — branding — with universities. We see economic values being weighed much more heavily than human values.

We have so many good colleges. If you’re honest, it’s not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that’s where a lot of it’s at.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

It’s all very misguided. They’re starting too early, and getting burned out.