What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

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.