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

I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.

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

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

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

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