When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Walk with the Creator on the face of earth.

To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.