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

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

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

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

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.

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.