What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

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

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

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

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.