I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.