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.

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.

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

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

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

People don't like politicians.

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.