We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

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

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.