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

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

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

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.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.