The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.