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

The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.

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

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

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

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

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.