...while social analysis must always be part of curriculum development and teaching, education policy and practice needs to be protected against the dangers of fads, obsessions and moral panics.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup