There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

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

I love you as my shadow loves me.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

I'm going to quit writing.