In education, parody is obsolete.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

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.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.