The very next time I walk into class, I will be, once again, somewhere I've never been. Jerry Farber

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

"The typical syllabus gives little indication that the students and teacher are embarking on an exciting learning adventure together, and its tone is more akin to something that might be handed to a prisoner on the first day of incarceration." Mano Singham, director of the center for teaching and learning at Case Western Reserve Univ

"Whatever the problem, community is the answer."
Meg Wheatley

“Think of life as a game where you are juggling five balls. You label them Work, Family, Health, Friends and Integrity. You try to keep all the balls in the air. One day you see that Work is a rubber ball. You drop it and it bounces back. The other four balls are made of glass—drop one and it will be irrevocably marked, scuffed, nicked, or shattered. When you see that, you strive for balance in your life.” Jim Patterson

"Why don't people exercise leadership more often? Because it's frightening. It's frightening, time-consuming, emotionally draining, and you have to take responsibility for somebody beside yourself." Bill Clinton

Beverly Daniel Tatum  "We are the leaders we have been waiting for."

Murray Bowen's definition of immaturity: "All you have to do is never think one plays a part in any problem."

Albert Einstein    "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it."

"We will strive to release something only if we have faith in what comes out, and we will strive to control and bottle up that which we fear." Thomas Gordon

"Genuine reform most often boils down to a shift in the depth of ownership and responsibility core workers feel toward the success of their workplace. All of the focus on leaders and leadership has the unintended effect of reducing the ownership and responsibility felt by those close to the work." Peter Block

Peter Block   "Nobody ever washes a rental car or takes it in for regular maintenance." 

"The wish for leadership is an escape from responsibility." Peter Block

"Today's schools are better than ever at doing what they used to do." Phillip Schlechty

"The most powerful human motivator of all is the desire to be proud of ourselves in the pursuit of something we care about deeply." Charles Garfield

"In this day and age if you are not confused, you're not thinking clearly." Bert Nanus

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it." Kurt Lewin

"If you argue for your limits, you get to keep them." Dudley Lynch

"You don't see the world the way it is.  You see the world the way you think."  Dudley Lynch

"When something needs to be done, the pain is in not doing it." Dudley Lynch

Dudley Lynch   "You can't fix what has failed with a new, improved version of what isn't working." 

"Think like a person of action and act like a person of thought." Henri Bergson

"I do not ask employees their opinions because I think it is good to get input. I ask their opinions and suggestions because I want to know what they think." William Skaggs, President, Meridian (MS) Community College

"Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations." Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner

"You can't get quality from an adversarial relationship." William Glasser

"Since the attitudes most people have about their work are usually more reactions to their work environment and how they are treated by the organization, efforts to change attitudes toward work and toward the organization should be directed more toward changing how the person is treated than toward attempting to change the person." Robert Nejedlo

Margaret Wheatley
"So often...at work we don't want disturbances, we don't want a different point of view, we don't want diversity, because we think if we keep it stable, we'll be safe.  But, in fact, a system that is stable is closest to death."

"A leader is one who has more faith in people than they do in themselves, and who courageously and patiently holds opportunities open long enough for their self-confidence to emerge." Margatet Wheatley

"A natural source of order in schools is that human beings love to learn."     Margaret Wheatley

"Organizations that run on excessive patriarchal dependency lead to anemic human beings." Peter Koestenbaum

The presence of anxiety does not mean that we are sick but that something within us is trying to be born. The experience of anxiety can be the realization that an old self is dying and a new self is trying to appear. To grow is to experience anxiety. There can be no growth without it. Peter Koestenbaum

I find it to be true that every time I do something for somebody, to some extent I dis-empower them. Harrison Owen

Some people will do anything to maintain control and avoid success. Harrison Owen

A course grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material. Paul Dressel (1957)