This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

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

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

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.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.