The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.

Angel dust blown a sunder, Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams, Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?"

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.