Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

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

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

Mind power is my art …… so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.

Human being is the only creature I found ho does everything he is not suppose to do.

...reflection can transform something familiar.

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

Memory narrativises itself.

You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

The real things are apt to be deviant.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions