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.

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

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

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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.

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.