Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

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

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

In education, parody is obsolete.

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.