Able Quote by Elliot W. Eisner

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

— William Allen White

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

— James S. Coleman

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

— Maria Montessori

There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend…

— Jared Polis

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

— Betsy DeVos

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young…

— Marjorie Spock

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson

No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.

— Betsy DeVos

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth…

— Kenneth Keniston

“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

“When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things…

— Rue Kream

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for…

— Rabindranath Tagore