The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

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

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.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking