Children Quote by Frank Peretti

“He’d experienced it as a private trauma. Failure in American schools was demoralizing and to be avoided at all costs. American kids could not…

— Amanda Ripley

“Angry at his parents and all grown-ups who thought that school life was a lark, a good time, the best years of your life…

— Robert Cormier

“One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of…

— Amanda Ripley

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and…

— Studs Terkel

“She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. She was puzzled and hurt by teacher’s attitude. Obviously the teacher hated her and…

— Betty Smith

“Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were…

— Diane Ravitch

“To deny James an education was attacking principles of liberty and equality upon the only ground which it ought to be supported and equality…

— Lynne Withey

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

“I sensed the schools were hiding something, drugging us with false morality so that we would not see, so that we did not ask:…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“This was ugly. It was dumb. It was the willful, self-destructive abdication of common sense in favor of petty point scoring. It was the…

— Keith Taylor

“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline