Adult Quote by Adora Svitak

Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher,

— Jose Gonzalez

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby…

— Laurence J. Peter

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for…

— William Glasser

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you…

— Noam Chomsky

When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the…

— Jimmy Carter

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express theirchoice are prepared to choosewisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

— Franklin D Roosevelt (1882â1945

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— John Dewey

Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of…

— Henry Giroux

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of…

— Alfie Kohn

A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and…

— Linda Darling-Hammond