Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

When learning is fun it gets done.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.