You never know how important something is, until it's gone.

Don't let people run your life. It's yours. You run it, the way you want it.

People who have nothing to give, tend to give the most.

It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.

Some of the most important influences on whether a student is learning have to do with their peers. The proverbial 'good class' really is good for individual kids within the class.

After three decades as an educationist, first as a teacher of children with learning difficulties, then as an educational psychologist and, latterly, as an academic who has reviewed the dyslexia literature, I have little confidence in my (or others') ability to offer a diagnosis of dyslexia,