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.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

Life is more about the journey than the destination

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.