The current auditorium is appalling. This goes to the fundamental of what schools are about. You can?t pull out potential in the current facilities. You can teach music, but you have to have a place to apply it.

He goes into a cocoon and tries to figure it out, ... Then, after a while, I'll pull him out and say, 'Let's go, Ro. Time to move forward.'

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Bart was, like a lot of people who were converted to fundamental evangelicalism, converted to the certainty of it all, of having all the answers. When he found out they were lying to him, he just didn't want anything to do with it.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.