“We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom”

“Your role as their teacher is to let them know ahead of time that if Jesus can't handle a little partying, we all need a new Jesus.”

“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds might understand (or misunderstand) it. Then they need to take each mind from not getting it to mastery. And they need to do this in 45 minutes or less.”

“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

“Buddha had said:"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”

“Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students”