Community Quote by Elena Aguilar

In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated…

— Carl Eckart

We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for…

— Nel Noddings

“we pay too little attention to the actual content of lessons: what gets taught and how it is taught. In the end, that is…

— Daisy Christodoulou

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard

“Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.”

— Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

— John Dewey

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid.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

We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We…

— Pedro Noguera

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

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

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared,…

— Randi Weingarten

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.

— Will Richardson