To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

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

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.