An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.