“ 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
“ His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than… Charles Emmerson
“ Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more. William Shakespeare
“ Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process. Andre Agassi
“ Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking ab… David Brooks
“ Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful. Jeff Myers
“ Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one. Martin Sheen
“ One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to f… Aldous Huxley
“ My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school? Ian Rankin
“ I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific trend of the times. You cannot obtain a useful citizen if you only develop his intellect. We take child… Norman Douglas
“ The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstra… Thomas Paine
“ Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made. Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awok… Malcolm X
“ In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the Communist Party. But even this was softened in som… Christopher Hitchens
“ We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will sl… Henry A. Giroux
“ While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not j… John Dewey
“ Trust in families and in neighborhoods and individuals to make sense of the important question, 'What is education for?' If some of them answer differently from what you might prefer, that's really no… John Taylor Gatto
