Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned.

Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don’t have a whole lot of free time on their hands.

How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees...

Because once upon a time, we grew up on stories and the voices in which they were told. We need words to hold us and the world to behold us for us to truly know our own souls.

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don’t want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

Teachers shouldn’t make the mistake of always thinking they’re the smartest person in the room.

That’s what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Education is the miracle; I’m just the worker.