Such pedagogy makes school wildly boring.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that…

— Gertrude Stein

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

— Robert Musil

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it…

— Maria Montessori

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal…

— John Bradshaw

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find…

— Paulo Freire

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of…

— Henry Giroux

“In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual…

— Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but…

— Pedro Noguera

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in…

— Plato

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn't…

— Victor Villanueva

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting,…

— William James

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models…

— Paulo Freire

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to…

— Bell Hooks

“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is…

— Sherry Turkle