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

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

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

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.