"What greater gift can we offer
the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" Cicero
"There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public
education. It is the underpinning of our culture and political
system. It is the great common ground. Public education after
all is the engine that moves us as a society toward a common destiny...It
is in public education that the American dream begins to take
shape." Tom Brokaw
"Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you
drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank
account, or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a
little better because you were important in the life of a
child." Anonymous
"Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate
and cherish diversity." Deborah Meier, educator