Adults Quote by John Dewey

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and…

— Deray McKesson

When it comes to education, there is far more that unites parents across America than divides us.

— Miguel Cardona

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

— Howard Gardner

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied…

— Keith Johnstone

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

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

— Mitch Kapor

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority…

— Margaret Spellings

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working…

— Michael Bennet

When we talk about public education, we don't worry about a district. We don't focus on an individual school or a building when we…

— Tate Reeves

Parents have every right to tell school boards what their children should be taught and every right to be upset when they are ignored.

— Miranda Devine

The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids…

— Albert Shanker

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to…

— Seymour Papert