Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Launching the Quotes category

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I’m a quotes aficionado so I just added a quotes category. I realized that I needed somewhere to capture the poignant phrasing of others and figured this was as good a place as any!

David Warlick, who can turn out a pithy quote with the best of them, gets a double dip to kick us off. Here’s the first one…

I also like this one…

We need administrators to be thinking and talking about this stuff!

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