Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence.

Law dies, books never.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.