On culture, Cooper believes that a familiarity with one's own culture and traditions is important and that you must understand your own culture and traditions before you can understand what kind of viable connections you have with the rest of the world. Cooper said that firm relationships between K-12 schools and colleges are important. Cooper said that his main worry concerning financial support for public education is its increasing inequity. He believes that education is based on the politicians in the states. He praised Georgia's Gov. Miller for his outstanding support for education.
Cooper is also a history buff.
There's always an important background that educators need to be aware of, and history provides us that. History teaches us where we've been. We're a lot better off when we pay attention to history. The English and Philosophy Department was divided to reduce the student-teacher ratio and to help emphasize the different subjects after approval of the Faculty Senate this past June. Roosevelt Newson, dean of the college of liberal arts and social sciences, presented and endorsed the division of the department.