Children Quote by Alexandra Robbins

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception…

— Joshua Neik

“Schools breed conformity. They socialise children in a particular way, make them into cooperative team players with limited capacity to think for themselves.”

— Sarah Singleton

When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service,…

— John Dewey

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard

“If we want to build schools where parents and teachers are fighting to get in instead of out, we must make developing positive school…

— Jimmy Casas

“This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make…

— Bruce Fuller

We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We…

— Pedro Noguera

“Now is the time for all of us to critically analyze our respective schools and take a stand against the status quo in order…

— Eric C. Sheninger

The reason why I'm so passionate about turning around failing schools is that children who have the misfortune to go to unsucccessful institutions are…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

“we pay too little attention to the actual content of lessons: what gets taught and how it is taught. In the end, that is…

— Daisy Christodoulou