Question:  For love to last, what are the negative habits to change as soon as possible? Answer:  You’ve probably met couples in which one or both partners interrupt the other person in public.  You might even be that couple!  Sevda and Tarik were friends of Gail’s (my wife of 30 years) and mine during our early years of marriage.  At parties or social gatherings, Sevda, a university professor, insisted that Tarik, a physician, was an …

Q:  Should we have more debates in our classrooms? ​ A:  Yes!  As a boy raised by Jewish parents, I spent a lot of my own boyhood debating—debating my parents, debating other kids in Sunday school, debating teachers in their classrooms (sometimes somewhat too obnoxiously!), and debating my siblings.  My mother called me “the fastest mouth in the west.”  Generally, she meant this both as a compliment and a complaint.  I …