Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

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

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.

When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.