Creativity Begins With An Affinity For Something.

If One Develops Good Habits And Routines, It Is Possible To Be A Responsible Educator Most Of The Time; And To Marshal The Special Energies And Reflection For Those Times, When The Correct Course Of Action Is Not Clear, Or When One Is Weighing One Wrong Against Another Wrong.

We Can Enhance Our Intelligences, But I Am Never Going To Become Yo-yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Or Pele.

I’d Rather See The United States As A Beacon Of Good Work And Good Citizenship, Rather Than As #1 On Some International Educational Measurement.

Creativity Begins With An Affinity For Something. It's Like Falling In Love.

In The United States, If You Ask Teachers, "are There Children Whom We Should Call 'gifted?'", Many If Not Most Will Say 'no.' That's The Politically Correct Answer. But If You Then Ask The Teacher To Rank Order Students In Terms Of How Well They Paint Or Write Or Dance, They'll Have Little Difficulty In Doing So.