I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

In success formula, master of history is the master builder of tomorrow

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like and what I can.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?