As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

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.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.