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

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

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.

A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.

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

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

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