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

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

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

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

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