If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.

I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.