It is not literally true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Most people will not see what is in a picture, or will see it through the most readily available visual cliches. It takes training and an analytical vocabulary to talk about what is in a picture, and to know what to look for. A picture is worth a thousand words only for those who already have internalized an adequate vocabulary.

The outsider sees details as meaningless, or doesn’t see the details at all. That is what makes most of us outsiders.

The reality for those in the successful inner circle is simply “the mundanity of excellence”: a smoothly applied routine of using finely tuned resources with the confidence that one knows how to make them pay off. To those in the outer tiers, even those in the second competitive rank, there seems to be some mysterious quality that the successful possess, and this sense of difference generates a barrier of anxiety which makes it all the more impassable.

The Friendship School has been a success, a big success. Many of the solutions for educational funding are going to rest on a regional basis.

Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

We can not understand the visible problem until we go to the invisible one.

It will give middle school students more choices.

It's a very painful day for the Waterford schools,

It's a very painful day for Waterford schools,