An Awful Lot Of People Come To

I Beg People Not To Accept The Seasonal Ritual Of Well-timed Charity On Christmas Eve. It's Blasphemy.

By Far The Most Important Factor In The Success Or Failure Of Any School, Far More Important Than Tests Or Standards Or Business-model Methods Of Accountability, Is Simply Attracting The Best-educated, Most Exciting Young People Into Urban Schools And Keeping Them There.

An Awful Lot Of People Come To College With This Strange Idea That There's No Longer Segregation In America's Schools, That Our Schools Are Basically Equal; Neither Of These Things Is True.

Good Teachers Don't Approach A Child Of This Age With Overzealousness Or With Destructive Conscientiousness. They're Not Drill-masters In The Military Or Floor Managers In A Production System. They Are Specialists In Opening Small Packages. They Give The String A Tug But Do It Carefully. They Don't Yet Know What's In The Box. They Don't Know If It's Breakable.

If You Could Lead Through Testing, The U.s. Would Lead The World In All Education Categories. When Are People Going To Understand You Don't Fatten Your Lambs By Weighing Them?