Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

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"!

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

If you must flie, flie well.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God.

Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.