[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

You've got to hide your love away. You can't just hide your feelings. You have to destroy them. Kill them before they kill you.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.