“The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.”

“This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school....”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.”

“If we could only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”

“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”

“Grades are still important, buy they are not the most important things. As clichd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for ...”

“As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In s...”

“Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up an...”

“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”

“Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.”

“Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.”

“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.”

“We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices th...”

“Education is a system. Learning is an ongoing every day process.”