One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

[ Cyber hacking] that's probably the only thing that we've learned from Hillary Clinton.

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.

Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.