The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.