We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

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

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him.

Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.