“Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion”

What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right.

[These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.

The Next Chapter in the Book of Hope: “Gaining New Hope Hearing Aids” As I was with the Lord in the “Classroom of Useful Information,”

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised – so it’s no longer “in the closet,” as it were. It’s part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature.

I’m a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

Since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.