"It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation"

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

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

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

"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"

"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"

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

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

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

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool"