I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.
The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.
The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.
One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.
It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I didn't get my job by promising a bunch of things. I'm a businessman and a creator. If I don't have the ability to change my mind, if I don't have the ability to be open to different points of view, then I can't do this job properly.
It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.