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

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.

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

We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.

Grandma Hutto’s flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.