Birth: June 23, 1932 Death: October 21, 2009
I cannot teach a child I do not know.
You can't motivate a student you don't know..
The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king..
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only….
Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential..
... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress..
A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought..
Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling..
Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything..
Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions….
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a su….