Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.