Children Quote by John Dewey

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

— 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 greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager…

— W. Edwards Deming

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

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

“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

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not…

— Peter Kropotkin

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— James S. Coleman

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

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

— Walt Disney