Never being afraid to learn — As we’ve learned more about the brain, how it grows and how it develops, we have proven how important the early years are. In that we’ve talked about literacy and we talk about ABC’s, we talk about numbers, and if we don’t understand it really deeply, then we get caught up in the trap that earlier is better and it’s not.

The first place to be – nature — One of the things that I know about children is that the first place they need to be is in nature. It’s in the outside. It’s in the sand, the dirt and the water and the leaves and spinning and running, and running full bore. And that’s what I don’t see any more. What I see is they’re programmed.

The light in children’s eyes — There’s a spirit inside every child and every day it seems to change because they’re interested in new things and in different things and it has kept me so fully alive.