The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

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

In order to put an end to our conflicts

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that's right now.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.