If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

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.

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

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

To hope is to enjoy.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I'm not a flamboyant artist.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.