If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

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

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

Worldly relationships are not true [are not real] it is a ‘business arrangement’.

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

Hopefully one day we will pledge allegiance to the Earth and ALL the people on it.

If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.