If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Removing red tapism and favoritism in higher education and research administration and management is of utmost importance. We need to empower universities, both government funded and private, to promote research and enable them to improve research infrastructure.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.