The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

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.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

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

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

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.