The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

True love withstands the storms of life.

I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.