He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.
If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.
There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education and who do want something better. They want to see better for their kids. They know that they’re in schools that aren’t performing particularly well and if you look at how we treat those parents, it is quite poorly.
We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.
We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are.
Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
Don't idolize anyone if you can. You know, be inspired by people, certainly, but don't idolize people. . . Because they'll let you down.
The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.