Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

The mystical non-sense of afterlife indeed gives solace to the mind in times of weakness, but why should the mind let its weakness be the fuel for primitiveness in the first place!

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I don't think I blushed once in my entire life before I met you, " I say."There will be a lot of things your body never did before you met me, " he brags unabashedly.

Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

Adversity is a stimulus.