A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.