The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

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.

Normal...is relative.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Choosing between day and night. Edgar and Heathcliff.

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

When our star shines, someone else's fades away; when our dream is fulfilled, someone else's turns into a nightmare!

I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.