Children Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that…

— Alfred Goodwin

There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense that they…

— Gotz Aly

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

— Robert Fulghum

Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They…

— C. Sommerville

“Far from helping students to develop into mature, self-reliant, self-motivated individuals, schools seem to do everything they can to keep youngsters in a state…

— Alfie Kohn

The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded…

— Michelle Alexander

School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more…

— Anonymous

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

— Henry Sidgwick

“It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere—mutilation of spontaneity, of…

— John Holt