Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

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.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

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.

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

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

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.