Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

For faithful Catholics communion is not just a nice ritual It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

When a marriage culture fails sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know its the most exquisite love of all.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.