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.

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

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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

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

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

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