I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

In quietness we find inner peace.

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his first times and he knocked out a duck. Like, I'm scared that's going to happen.

I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.