If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

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?

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

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

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