This book has changed my views on teaching and instruction completely. Teaching to me was making sure that everyone understood and was on the right track, but Ron Clark has taught to think above that. To think that my students can achieve more education wise, and their lives. Us as teachers are not just affecting them educational wise we are affecting them in every developmental way possible. For example, Ron Clark talked about in the book how not every child deserves a cookie. He explains this by telling us how every year he gives his fifth grade students an assignment where they have to read a book and present a project on a character from the book. They must use their creativity to show what that character loved the most, his view of the