Country Quote by John Dewey

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap…

— Stephen Covey

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today…

— Albert Einstein

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

— Phyllis Schlafly

My husband and I both attended public schools. We believe in the benefits, both individual and communal, of supporting public schools.

— Kim Brooks

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

— John Goodlad

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be…

— C. S. Lewis

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, is to…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

— Linda Sunshine

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture…

— Shakira

“Differences across social lines in schooling aspirations—initially those of parents and later those of children—are one of the ways the long shadow imprints itself…

— Karl Alexander

“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book…

— Alfie Kohn