What I would like to do is to take very bright kids, and give them fundamental ideas. I would teach them Einstein’s theory of gravity, curved space-time, I would teach them quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle, I would teach them Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. I would skip everything and go to the frontiers.

That’s what I wanted to do as a child. I was always going through piles of books trying to get to the interesting stuff and teach myself that. Because in the normal school system you take years and years and years to get to the interesting things, and that way everyone dies of boredom.