Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

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

History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.

I want her sinful arms wrapped around me, bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.