Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

- Shirley Hufstedler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and …

- Shirley Hufstedler

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

- Shirley Hufstedler

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of human…

- Shirley Hufstedler

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

- Shirley Hufstedler

Justice is a blindfolded woman.

- Shirley Hufstedler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

- Shirley Hufstedler

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

- Shirley Hufstedler

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

- Shirley Hufstedler