george bernard shaw, william butler yeats, oscar wilde, bram stoker, samuel beckett, maeve binchy, andgue so rich and sweet ♪ ♪ an' to rise in the world he carried a hod ♪ ♪ you'd see that's such a tippler's way ♪ ♪ with the love of the liquor poor tim was born ♪ ♪ and to help him on with his work each day ♪ ♪ he'd a drop of the craythur every morn ♪ ♪ whack fol the dah now dance to your partner ♪ ♪ welt the floor, your trotters shake ♪ ♪ wasn't it the truth i told ya? lots of fun at finnegan's wake ♪ ♪ one morning tim was rather full, his head was heavy which made him shake ♪ ♪ he fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, they took him home his corpse to wake ♪ ♪ they wrapped him up in a nice clean sheet, they laid him out upon the bed with a gallon of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter at his head ♪ ♪ whack fol the dah now dance to your partner ♪ ♪ welt the floor, your trotters shake ♪ ♪ wasn't it the truth i told ya? lots of fun at finnegan's wake ♪ ♪ his friends assembled at the wake and mrs. finnegan called for lunch ♪ ♪ first they brought in tay and cake, then pipe tobac

. >> stephen covey: i love the statement from george bernard shaw. he said...or a purpose known to yourself as a mighty one." >> stephen covey: "being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. i am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as i live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever i can." >> t. harv eker: everybody has the ability to be a hero. everyone has the ability to change people's lives and how do you do that? you just do it. you give your gift, your special gift. if someone's having a crummy day and you somehow make then laugh or you smile, or you smile at them, what do you think that does energetically to them? >> t. harv eker: that changes things. you know, they're really down and all of a sudden they're laughing or they're smiling. >> t. harv eker: you know, you've brightened, you've given them that little bit of hope, a little bit of light and everyone has the opportunity to do that. >> dalai lama: sa

too many people take what george bernard shaw said that those who cannot do -- can, do, those who cannot, teach. do something on that university of maryland study on fox, if you could. "who this morning's story, knows best how to educate your kids?" matt is joining us from takoma park, maryland. caller: i am an english teacher in montgomery county. i just switched professions. what is amazing to me is how -- all of this scrutiny in the way the tests are driving education, to the point where my students are taking their tests every quarter, in addition to final exams, in addition to being ready to take ap tests and every kind of test. it is kind of squeezing out the time we have and the classroom to talk about things that i loved from all of my teachers that i remember. there isleft -- or there is not the same space left that there should be. host: can ask a couple of questions? congress is going to look at leave no job behind, which was put in place by president bush in 2003 -- no child behind, which was put in place by president bush in 2003. you have state and local jurisdictions. in a