The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a qu….

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because ….

When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nine….

Money has to serve, not to rule!.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there..

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you..

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular..

Invest time, don't spend it..

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher..

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably.".

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me..

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this..

I don't come from money..

When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You als….

You’re meant for me, and I will have you..

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the stude….

Anger is a good motivator..

It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed..

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a cris….

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts ….

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task..