“. . .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured.”

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.”

“As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007”

“All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.”