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

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

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

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.