In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

You’re as strong as your resolutions!

Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

Any noun can be verbed.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.