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Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

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Improvement is about doing something better innovation is about doing something new.
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On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
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Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
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As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
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We should test prudently not profligately.
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Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
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Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
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Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
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Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
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