Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.