Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.