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.

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.

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.

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.

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

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