Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

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 mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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