If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

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'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.