Children Quote by John Dewey

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in school comes from his inability to utilize the experience he gets outside while on…

— Anonymous

The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within…

— John Dewey

“the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his home, he…

— Maria Montessori

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

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on…

— John Dewey

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown,…

— Sandra Dodd

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

— James S. Coleman

“There is no reason why a child, living in every other way as a dependent of his parents, could not and should not have…

— John Holt

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning.…

— Sugata Mitra

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

— Nicholas Negroponte

There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful,…

— Ellen Galinsky

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

— Hyman Rickover