The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

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.

The race to win turns us all into losers.

In education, parody is obsolete.