Some favorite Quotes:
“Difficult children make interesting adults.”
and
"You know, real intellectuals, they don't care how you get there, they just want you to get there. They don't care about process, they care about ideas. These are people who are on fire about the big ideas in the world, and the other stuff is minutia, right? And that's what father young believed, that's what he understood, he was going to hold me to the highest expectations, higher expectations than the rest of the class, but he was going to give me multiple ways to reach those expectations. …I didn't have to argue with this guy about whether we needed to take time extensions or not because he understood that how well I know something is more important than how fast I know something. He understood that we're not trying to educate a generation of jeopardy contestants, right? Why -- why is time the determining factor, right? So he understood that if you get somebody interested in these ideas, we got to nurture that and we have to accommodate and change the environment."
and
“My mother was a vociferous advocate for me. And the central component of my relationship for her,something she said every day, was 'you don't need somebody to fix you, you need somebody to fight for you and with you because what's happening to you is an injustice.'”
