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

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?

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.

Your spirit knows your purpose launch yourself into a highest virtues from within.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Life is short and so is money.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

To lovers and dreamers and anyone who hasn’t truly experienced either.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.