Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

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

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us

A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

I never feel like I conquered the day and did everything I possibly should have, could have, would have.

The living are just the dead on holiday

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.