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

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

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.

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

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

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.