Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

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

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

I realized that just because “I can’t, ” doesn’t mean “I shouldn’t.

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Kids are really cruel.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.