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

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

In education, parody is obsolete.

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

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.

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.