When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he send….

We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, rais….

We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I pr….

I am pretty involved with everything that goes on, and overtime have learned a lot about the business side of things. I have an amazing manager, who ….

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the p….

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories..

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incr….

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude….

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energ….

You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any….

I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a story….

Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or y….

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screami….

Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long….

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to ac….

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is..

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, t….

If someone takes something from me I’m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted sick hands and say it is mine! And I am going to punch ….

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow..

Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spir….

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a nat….