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.

- Deborah Meier

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…

- Deborah Meier

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

- Deborah Meier

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

- Deborah Meier

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

- Deborah Meier

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 …

- Deborah Meier

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…

- Deborah Meier

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

- Deborah Meier

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…

- Deborah Meier