It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Our teachers deserve better feedback

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.