Adherence Quote by Martin Filler

“The Polytechnic was a new sort of college dedicated to producing teachers and professors for various math or scientific disciplines, and it was one…

— Marie Benedict

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people…

— Sugata Mitra

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting…

— Janet Napolitano

“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they reflect the…

— Ken Robinson

We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could…

— Neil Postman

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

— Major Owens

“Our grandfathers and great grandfathers18 built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized economy. And…

— Warren Berger

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of…

— Ted Sizer

In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are…

— Michael Fullan

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the…

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

“... schools in many industrialized nations were not, for the most part, designed to produce innovative thinkers or questioners -- their primary purpose was…

— Warren Berger

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for,…

— John Ambrose Fleming