“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”

“Teachers often fail students by complimenting the successful students and ignoring those who do not prove as successful. Teachers need to embrace and praise all children.”

“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”

“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”

“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.”