Adjustment Quote by Pedro Noguera

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard

I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and…

— Seymour Papert

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

— Josh Shapiro

“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

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions…

— Ted Sizer

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

— Donalyn Miller

“Our schools today are probably further away from self-management than most other types of organizations. We have turned schools, almost everywhere, into soulless factories…

— Frederic Laloux

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of…

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

“Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have…

— Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

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

“Curriculum must be improved in order to meet the needs of all our students. Our schools cannot continue to exist or be treated as…

— Elena Aguilar

For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that…

— Howard Gardner