Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.