Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.