Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

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

The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

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

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

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

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.