If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.