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Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.