The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

Husband-hunting. Always a rousing sport. I suppose you go there dressed to kill.""No, indeed. What good is a dead husband?" She smiled airily. "I go dressed to maim only.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Today’s problem is that people are quickly falling in love and falling out of it just as quickly.

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

Hillary Clinton needs no advice from anyone.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.