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

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.

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.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him.

It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them.

Emulate greatness to be great.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people.

Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker.

People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.