Coordinating Quote by John Dewey

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each…

— John Dewey

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

— Andy Hargreaves

“Schools breed conformity. They socialise children in a particular way, make them into cooperative team players with limited capacity to think for themselves.”

— Sarah Singleton

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that…

— Neil Postman

In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world,…

— Pope Francis

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

— John Dewey

Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

— Noam Chomsky

Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“Curriculum must be improved in order to meet the needs of all our students. Our schools cannot continue to exist or be treated as…

— Elena Aguilar

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

— John Dewey

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

— Elliot W. Eisner

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

— Michel Foucault