When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

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?

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

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

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