Children Quote by James S. Coleman

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

— Elliot W. Eisner

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

— Dorothy H Cohen

Success isn't ideal for every child. If we think a child would do better in a different school, whether it's a specialized program or…

— Eva Moskowitz

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

— Solomon Ortiz

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

— Maria Montessori

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of…

— Earl Warren

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

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools

— Bob Riley

Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately…

— Nicky Morgan

The reason why I'm so passionate about turning around failing schools is that children who have the misfortune to go to unsucccessful institutions are…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

— Hyman Rickover