If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

[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.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

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

One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.

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