Community Quote by Bill Ayers Download Open image “It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.” — Bill Ayers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Connections Education Greatness School Schools and community
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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 Copy Share Image
“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives. — Donald L. Carcieri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968]. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image