Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

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

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.