Doing the right thing Quote by Thomas J. Sergiovanni

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

— Anonymous

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

— William Bennett

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

— R. H. Tawney

“As Denise Pope outlined in “Doing School,” kids today have tremendous pressure to simply get the work done—to “do school”—rather than to learn. They…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

— Plato

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

— Franz Kafka

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

— George H. W. Bush

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful…

— Carol Bellamy

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

— John Ruskin

When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

— Jalen Rose

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized…

— Guy Claxton