All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

You only win when you let others win.

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

There's more to Life than this

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

I’ve been things and I've seen places.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.