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

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

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

Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.