Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

Organic farming is personal.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

The best place to find things: the public library.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.