The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

- Deborah Meier

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's…

- Deborah Meier

I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality…

- Deborah Meier

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

- Deborah Meier

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

- Deborah Meier

If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have …

- Deborah Meier

Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to peo…

- Deborah Meier

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

- Deborah Meier

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

- Deborah Meier