If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

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

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

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

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

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

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.