Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.