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

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

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.

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

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.