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

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

I believe the more difficult a child is, the more I want that child. But I won't take a child until the parent brings him to us. So it is just the opposite - we get the ones that no one else will take. We get sawdust, and we have to make boards out of it.

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

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

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.