Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

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

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.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.