On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

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"!

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

I think that people always get what they deserve - whether you're around to see it or not.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.