Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.