"We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school"

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

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"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"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"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"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"