As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

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"!

It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

... and that's why I kicked your leg out of your leg!

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.