Children Quote by Paula Polk Lillard

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young…

— Marjorie Spock

We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We…

— Pedro Noguera

When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service,…

— John Dewey

“If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception…

— Joshua Neik

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

— Nelson Mandela

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The nature of schooling as we know it has become the unquestioned answer to educating our children. It is not. Knowing what we now…

— Stephanie Pace Marshall

“Education loses its sacred purpose when it teaches achievement without awareness, for the highest learning is not simply preparing a child to compete with…

— Shree Shambav

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed…

— Albert Shanker

If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but…

— Clarence Page

“If we want to build schools where parents and teachers are fighting to get in instead of out, we must make developing positive school…

— Jimmy Casas