'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.

Arabic Proverb

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.

Bible

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Sargent Shriver

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

Kurt Vonnegut

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld