Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

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 cannot say whether things will get better if we change

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

I'm grateful for the people who watch everyday because if the viewers don't tune in, I don't have a job and I know that.

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.