It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

You can never be happily married to the one you are not happily in-a-relationship with.

He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain, worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.