We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.