"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"