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.

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.

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

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

I just lost my lunch and I didn’t even have any!

Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.