"I think my initial motivations were um that I think if I, when I was in high school if I had that program, my, the decision-making I, well the decision I made about my schooling would have been different and I probably would have had a much better experience with high school because I had a really terrible high school experience."

"My job as a researcher isn’t just to make sure that the camera is functioning and that the batteries are charged, but it’s also to observe what’s happening between Matt and his students, and find out if there’s things I can draw from there."

"The library I was working from is a private library, and was not funded by the government – there were so many different cracks we fell into, but there is never ever a place that we landed and thought, this is a place where we could get some money!”

"I think it's that I have this fear of hurting um teen-agers. I think it's because I was yelled at all the time when I was a teen-ager, and um I really hated it and thought it was ineffective and I don't want to be that person who yells at them, even though I feel like need to get yelled at sometimes."

"One of the things that I thought was really fun was um, one of the tasks was to compare the garbage collection system in Montreal and Cairo - which would be a lot of fun if you had a clue where Cairo was. It's that type of thing that doesn't seem to translate into our particular environment. But it's a great idea on paper."