Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.
The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.