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I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Responsibility educates.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.