Teaching is listening, learning is talking

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

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.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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

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.