You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

In any place work is done, you cannot accept anything less than competence if you want high quality.

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.

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.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.