"American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place"