Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

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

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

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

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.