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One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
There is only one more thing for me to say: Please help make my forecast wrong. Together we could create a much better world.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.
I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.
The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.
If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.
I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.
Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.
Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.
Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.
What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better.
Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.
A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true.
I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.
[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.