Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

Movies portray men as tough guys.