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

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?

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

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.

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