I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.