Calm Quote by James Forman, Jr

“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

I encourage young people to feel passionately about important issues including climate change. But to suggest that they should strike during school hours is…

— Gladys Berejiklian

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

— Anonymous

“Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations”

— Gossy Ukanwoke

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

— Eva Moskowitz

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a…

— John Merrow

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first…

— William Julius Wilson

You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids…

— Pedro Noguera

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

— Michael Gove

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

— John Taylor Gatto

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

— Thomas J. Sergiovanni