Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily …

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.

A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.

I was seven years old. What do you know when you're seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we'd been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Ca…