You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.