Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.