The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.