Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?