No Human Being Will Work

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.

Every Single Major Push In Education Has Made It Worse And Right Now It's Really Bad Because Everything We've Done Is De-humanizing Education. It's Destroying The Possibility Of The Teacher And The Student Having A Warm, Friendly, Intellectual Relationship.

When We Label Anyone 'bad', We Will Have More Trouble Dealing With Him Than If We Could Have Settled For A Lesser Label.

They Have This Big Book Called The 'dsm-iv,' You Know, That Is Supposedly Written About Crazy People, But I Think It Is A Book That Is Written By Crazy People!

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.