Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

You know what I gave to Russia? You know what I gave? Nothing.

I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.