Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

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"!

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

L.A. kind of scares me.

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.