Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

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.

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

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.