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

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.

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.

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.