"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri"

"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"

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

"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"

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

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

"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"

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

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