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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

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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.

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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

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

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

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

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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less

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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.

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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.

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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

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If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

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We are driven by five genetic needs survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

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We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

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This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

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