“ Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. B… Katherine Stewart
“ By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart Ben Mitchell
“ In a traditional classroom, the spread between the fastest and slowest students grows over time, [and so] putting them all in one class cohort eventually makes it exceedingly difficult to avoid either… Salman Khan
“ The master always keeps a piece of learning--that is to say, a piece of the student's ignorance--up his sleeve. I understood that, says the satisfied student. You think so, corrects the master. in fac… Jacques Rancière
“ Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go far beyond this. A student… Douglas Wilson
“ The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen, the doubt as to… Douglas Wilson
“ Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I th… Tucker Elliot
“ An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader. Tucker Elliot
“ Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between… Garret Keizer
“ Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of… Gregory Bassham
“ I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure o… John Green
“ In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There’s clearly something wrong with this picture. Zander Sherman
“ You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model. Judith Rodin
“ It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying. Ron Suskind
