In education, parody is obsolete.

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

None of us can choose where we shall love...

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

My breakfast is very important.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.