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.

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.

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

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

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

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

[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.