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

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

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

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.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.