What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

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?

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

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

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

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