Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!