Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

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

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

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

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.