Education Quote by Deborah Meier

“A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.”

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Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You…

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It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

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Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of…

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I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's…

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Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

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We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were…

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Teaching is listening, learning is talking

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The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew…

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The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is…

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Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to…

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Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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