If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have ….

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling..

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity..

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so..

Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to peo….

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's….

The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myt….

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people rem….

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segr….

I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality….

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids..

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up..

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity..

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing..

Teaching is listening, learning is talking.