Everybody needs one essential friend.

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

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

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.

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

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.