A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

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

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.