Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

All because I fell in love with a madman.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!