Community Quote by Bill Ayers

For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that…

— Howard Gardner

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their…

— Erin Gruwell

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

It's about having a comprehensive vision that includes things like social supports while providing a high-quality education. It seems obvious, but when you look…

— Pedro Noguera

Schools are more than just places where students learn how to read and write - they're communities. They're like second families to our students.

— Miguel Cardona

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

— Donald L. Carcieri

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in…

— Arne Duncan

The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend…

— William Torrey Harris

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

— Mark Twain

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come…

— Rafe Esquith

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and…

— Arabella Weir

“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