What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

It was a senseless crime. My baby had the potential to be a physician -- a healer. We pray that out of her death, there will be healing for this community.

It's very easy to go into a school and feel like you don't matter. This program has the potential of making changes.

He has always found ways to make sure that children could reach their full potential in school. It's obvious this educator is still educating and still making a difference. He was replanted and is still bearing fruit.

That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless. You ace a math test: you will one day work for NASA. The choir director asks you to sing a solo at the holiday concert: you are the next Mariah Carey. You score a goal, you win a poetry contest, you act in a play. And you are everything at once: actor, astronomer, gymnast, star. But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird. Cello lessons conflict with soccer practice. There aren't enough spots on the debating team. Calculus remains elusive. Until the day you realize that you cannot think of a single thing you are wonderful at.

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.