No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

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

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.

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.

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.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.