“I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They dont want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they ...”

“My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint ...”

“The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security ...”

“They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.”

“I look at my students and have no trouble picturing just how successful they should be, if only we could remove them from the impetuses that brought them to the facility. If we could move them away...”

“Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what theyve been told all their li...”

“I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”

“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”

“We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...."These words, wrung from the very depths o...”

“I know you dont understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward, he says.”

“I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward,” he says.”

“Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.”

“It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.”

“Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.”