Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

The race to win turns us all into losers.

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

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

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

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.

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