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

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.

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

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

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

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

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.