- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous."
-Confucius
"Kids don't drop out in high school, they drop out in Kindergarten."
-Mary Proud
"For students who are mathematically gifted, teacher uses the following strategies: acceleration, enrichment, sophistication, and novelty. Teacher avoids: assigning more of the same work, giving free time to early finishers, often assigning gifted students to help struggling learners, only independent enrichment on the computer."