Everybody Needs One Essential Friend.

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.

We Are Driven By Five Genetic Needs: Survival, Love And Belonging, Power, Freedom, And Fun.

As Long As Acquiring Knowledge Is The Educational Goal Of Schools, Educational Opportunities Will Be Limited, As They Are Now, To Affluent Families.

To Counter The Avoidance Of Intellectual Challenge And Responsibility, We Must Reduce The Domination Of Certainty In Education.

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.