There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.