“After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

…a student attains ‘higher order thinking’ when he no longer believes in right or wrong”. “A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student’s fixed beliefs. …

Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach.

A large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child’s thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

While what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don’t continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on.

I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice – both bad abuse and good abuse.

I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That’s New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then – the alley.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I’ve known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future…Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the years…Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at.

I’ve wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross.