Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

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

Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.