Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

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

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.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

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.

[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.