"You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will."

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"You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will."

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"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."

Friendship

"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."

Experience

"Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much."

Change

"I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever."

Rules

"But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way."

Family

"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration."

Family

"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."

Technology

"I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children."

Success

"In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today."

Work

"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."

Creativity