Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.