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.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

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

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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