We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

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.

never put all the good people in one plane, ship, train .....

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

It’s true, isn’t it? Then what else really matters?

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'