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

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

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.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

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.

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.