You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c."

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

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

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

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

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