Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Sometimes before it gets betterthe darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet foris behind the trigger.

Can you imagine saying ‘Hi’ to Sam Jackson and he goes and gives you a hug? It’s like being hugged by a lion.

All I was was a mechanism.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.