Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

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

We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.

The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.