In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

The glamorous colors of the sunset is inviting me

To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those who try looking for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

Half the world is wandering, the other half is lost.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.