Accepting Quote by James S. Coleman

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

— Anonymous

We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that…

— David Guterson

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it…

— Lisa Delpit

“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression, is still…

— Theodore Dalrymple

If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which they are…

— Henry Giroux

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their…

— Pia Wurtzbach

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This…

— John Lydon

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

— Erik Erikson

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding