We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. – Aristotle
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. – Alfred North Whitehead
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S… what singer doesnt have that dream? – Katherine Jenkins