The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.