Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

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 has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis, ' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.