What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.