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

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

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

I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

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

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.