Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

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

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth, The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.