The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

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.

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?

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

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

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