The fear that society creates — Fear comes from not being grounded in what we believe about children and allowing the scary things that you read in the newspaper, that you see on television, and the things that people talk about every day, I got the kid down the street, oh my goodness, what happened?

Nature not plastic — I go to this home and I sing songs and I read as many books as the child wants me to read in an evening. And these are parents who are in the school and I know they care about me and I know they care about the philosophy. I know they believe the philosophy and it was almost more than I could bear when I saw all of the plastic. It was a room that is bigger than you can imagine, filled with plastic stuff for kids. Plastic fruit, plastic food, plastic this and plastic that. There was nothing real, nothing really authentic in that house.