Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

For me, Domhnall is an acting teacher as much as anything. If I turn out to be half the actor he is, I'll be happy.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.