If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

I don't know how electricity works. All I know is that it calms me.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.