Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

I cannot teach a child I do not know

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Listen to Understand. Not to Reply!!!!

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

If Not You, Who Else?