Absolutes Quote by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

School develops our skills, knowledge and abilities whereas family teaches loyalty and discipline. By adding these two- it makes YOU unstoppable.

— Magdalyn

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with…

— John Dewey

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

— Ninian Smart

Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and…

— Catharine Beecher

“When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things…

— Rue Kream

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family…

— John Taylor Gatto

“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap…

— Stephen Covey

There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful,…

— Ellen Galinsky

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth…

— Kenneth Keniston

“Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.”

— Alexandra Robbins