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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses’ interests, not the members.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn’t exist.

Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

It’s a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.