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

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

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

Youth - our greatest resource - is being seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation as a whole is not preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to keep up with the increase in our population.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.