When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.