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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.