We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.

There is more awareness among parents and families and teachers that if we want children to succeed in school, we need to provide good experiences in kindergarten and earlier.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

The books are your teacher, after and before school.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.