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

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.

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.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt.

I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.

Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little prince)

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.