On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.