When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.
The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.
I have never been interested in specific roles.