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The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example…

— Charlie Sykes

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

— Erik Erikson

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your…

— Laurence Steinberg

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

— Joan Lingard

We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil,…

— Elise M. Boulding

We need to make sure that our schools have what they need to give our kids the best opportunity to succeed.

— Josh Shapiro

We need walls around our schools, we need to protect our schools. Ten-foot rule. You can't get within ten feet unless you're supposed to…

— Tyrus

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is…

— Albert Einstein

My vision is that schools need to be community centers. Schools need to be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day six, seven days…

— Arne Duncan

More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools…

— Clarence Clemons

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

— Rita Dove