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.

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

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

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

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Everybody needs one essential friend.