Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

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

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.