Quotes

"It's frustrating to see someone who doesn't have a background in education setting education policy.."
Sotelo, Deb Aronson: Arizona Bans Mexican American Study Program

"The teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his own professional authority, which he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;"
Paolo Freire, The Banking Concept of Education

"Imagine judging competence of a cardiologist by the average of her patients' cardiograms."
Mike Rose when speaking about how test scores are used to judge a teacher's competence, Resolutions on Education

"In a certain kind of patronizing way education just says, all these people need is tools
for survival, basic survival tools, like their degree so they can get a job and not, in fact,
that we enhance their lives in the same way we've enhanced our lives by engaging in a
certain kind of critical process"
bell hooks, Critical Thinking

"A big part of building charater is overcoming failure. Too much adversity is bad, but so is too little, which doesn't allow a child to build grit."
Jerry Large, Gift of Grit, Curiosity Helps Kids Succeed

"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that our schools are broken.."
Lewis Black