I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

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

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

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

I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.