It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

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.

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"!

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!