Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

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.

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.

The only way through pain is love.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

I'm going to tell my contestants: Be Bernie Sanders. Be the person people want and love.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.