Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is to watch what they do at school, and I was always a bit unhappy with the academic program. It was a kind of hit and miss.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.