"As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful."

"I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do."

"See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys."

"So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."

"I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."