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

When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?

To feel controlled is to lose interest.

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.

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.