The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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.

What we need is the power to pray.

Focus on what matters.Honour your valuesand make decisionsthat are aligned with them.

God is strongest when we are weakest.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!

When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.