Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

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

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.