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

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

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.

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

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