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

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

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

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.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

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