"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."

"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."

"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."

"Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about."

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

"The darkest nights often reveal that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."

"I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."