The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

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

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

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.

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

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.