Children Quote by Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

— George W. Bush

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But…

— Edwin Catmull

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor…

— Anonymous

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human…

— Bob Lutz

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

— Marva Collins

I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find…

— Eva Moskowitz

If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to…

— Paul Tough

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it…

— Lisa Delpit

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

— Roddy Doyle

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth…

— Kenneth Keniston

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

— John Taylor Gatto

“Nothing succeeds like success; children who opt out of school have had a continued record of failure, and it would be difficult to blame…

— Hans Eysenck