There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

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

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.

The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

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

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

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