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.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

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

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.