Accomplishment Quote by John Dewey

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition,…

— John Dewey

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may…

— Horace Mann

The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend…

— William Torrey Harris

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

— Andy Hargreaves

“Our current society is designed to achieve growth of industrial output and redistributing its spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“So it’s a mixed bag. Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do…

— Kevin Simler

“Most important of all: in our anxiety to "improve" the world and insure "progress" we have permitted our schools to become laboratories for social…

— Barry M. Goldwater

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman

... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and…

— Catharine Beecher

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in…

— Arne Duncan

“We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more…

— Marilynne Robinson

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural…

— L. Ron Hubbard