We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

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.

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.