The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.

I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is to watch what they do at school, and I was always a bit unhappy with the academic program. It was a kind of hit and miss.

You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c."

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.