Teaching is a passionate profession.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

My line is all based on what I would wear, what I love to wear... It's very selfish! The first thing I ask myself is, "Is this something I would want for myself?" If so, I make it.

Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.

We need each other, We believe in one another, And I know we're gonna uncover, What's sleepin' in our soul...

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.