A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

I cannot teach a child I do not know

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born

Society was created not by men but by women

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

Act only in Love. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.