Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict.
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.
I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.
If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.
We want our students to be the students we want to teach.
People see stories everywhere. . . We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true. . . We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it. . . The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.