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.

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.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

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

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.