Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.