Literacy, numeracy, and computer literacy are the three things that I really want my kids to have. And those three, to me, are foundational building blocks—and everything else they can learn on their own interest in their own time.

The typical way of looking at parenting is the question of what do you allow and what do you disallow? ... And what I do, my wife and I do, is we just step away from that question altogether and instead view problems as they arise and try to find solutions to those problems rather than appealing to rules.

Every time you force your child to do something, you inevitably set yourself up as an adversary to your kid.

The problem with coercion is that it blocks knowledge growth, and your duty as a parent is to facilitate and foster knowledge growth.

I would rather that my kids be disobedient and free and uneducated than that they're educated and obedient.

The role of the parent is to facilitate the child as a burgeoning knowledge creator and not to foil that process.