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

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.

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.

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

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

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