If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.
How you coach them is how they're going to play.
Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to ge...
He not only had the gift of reading men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt,...
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should ta...
I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.