How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

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.

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

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

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Successful people will tell you that they do not wonder if they are going to succeed. They know they will. It's just a matter of when.

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.