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Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

There's always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

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