"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage"

"Music is my religion"

"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"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"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"

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

"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"