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.

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.