Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?