Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot