Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

When I grew up in Cincinnati in 1974, the Board of Education set up the performing school, similar to the New York performing arts school, and it was in walking distance from my school.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.