No Academic Ever Expects To Be Taken

A Continuing Conversation With Other Persons, With Cultural Products, And With Oneself, Is A Large Part Of What It Means To Be A Human Being, In Our Time And Perhaps In All Time.

The Countries Who Do The Best In International Comparisons, Whether It's Finland Or Japan, Denmark Or Singapore, Do Well Because They Have Professional Teachers Who Are Respected, And They Also Have Family And Community Which Support Learning.

My Belief In Why America Has Been Doing So Well Up To Now Is That We Have Been Propelled By Our Immigrants And Our Encouragement Of Technical Innovation And, Indeed, Creativity Across The Board.

Emile Zola Was A Poor Student At His School At Aix. We Are All So Different Largely Because We All Have Different Combinations Of Intelligences. If We Recognize This, I Think We Will Have At Least A Better Chance Of Dealing Appropriately With Many Problems That We Face In The World.

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.