We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

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.

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian

Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what’s good for all is always its priority.

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.