Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

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

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation, " intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on 'The Biggest Loser' because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don't realize it.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.