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

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.

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.

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

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

No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?