The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.