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.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

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

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

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

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.