If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

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 to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.

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

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

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

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

Teaching is listening, learning is talking