Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

What doesn't kill you makes you CRAZY, GRUMPY, MAD AS EVER? NO it makes you STRONGER! Yep, you'll get there eventually!

Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one’s life

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.