Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

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"!

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

I just use Logic, so I need to get more keyboards and gear. I need to get my Korg.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.