Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.