"We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars."

"A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that."

"Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college."

"I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people."

"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

"A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions."

"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."