There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
