We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

It's all very misguided. They're starting too early, and getting burned out.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

We have so many good colleges. If you're honest, it's not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that's where a lot of it's at.

It's certainly part of the same group-think. They're doing the same thing -- branding -- with universities. We see economic values being weighed much more heavily than human values.