None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

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

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.