Education

• The Four-Hour School Day (And Why We'll Never Do It)
• Conditions of Learning
• Shadows on the Wall - The Futility of Ed Reform
• Generative Education
• The Game of School and the Levels of Learning, 25 September 2019
• Modern Learning: Re-Discovering the Transformative Promise of Educational Technology [REPORT], October 2017
• Paradox of Education
• A Student Bill of Rights
• The Noble Lie
• The Trust Crisis
• The Parents' Solution Podcast Interview - "How Do We Change Things?", 20 December 2020
• The Serious and Historic Importance of Media Literacy, 1 November 2018
• RE-ENVISIONED Interview, 9 April 2017
• ABC (Australia) Interview on Learning, 15 September 2015
• Questioning the Ed Reform Narratives - "Using Education to Serve the Individual," PART 1 & PART 2, 5 Feb 2015 interview with Alisa Gross for The Acclaim Blog.
• Questioning the Ed Reform Narratives - "Using Education to Serve the Individual," PART 1 & PART 2, 5 Feb 2015 interview with Alisa Gross for The Acclaim Blog.
• Education and Control, 25 September 2014 recorded audio interview with Nick DiNardo on Meet Education Project
• Escaping the Education Matrix, 8 January 2014 on Mind/Shift
• A Global Education Declaration, 22 November 2013
• My Beliefs, 16 May 2013
• Hacking at the Roots of the Learning Revolution, 19 December 2012
• A "Tail" of Two Ed Tech Agendas, 4 March 2012
• Encyclopedia Britannica Blog: Moving Toward Web 2.0 in K-12 Education, 22 October 2008
• Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education, 4 March 2008
• "Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free." - Brene Brown
• "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming
• You Are Not a Failure
• "Our children need to be treated as human beings - exquisite, complex and elegant in their diversity." - Lloyd Dennis
• "If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." - Chinese proverb
• “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” - Alexis de Tocqueville
• "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting their eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted." - Garrison Keillor
• “When you judge you project your shadows onto others. When you love you project your inner light.” - Aine Belton
• "There is no recipe for raising children to be successful adults, but parental warmth and affection make more of a difference than any other factor… The main finding… was that 'subjects who had warm mothers or warm fathers were more likely to be rated as higher in social accomplishments 36 years later.' - Radcliffe Study, Quoted in the Boston Globe (4/8/91)
• "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
• "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - G.K. Chesterton
• "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paolo Friere
• "All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them." - R. Buckminster Fuller
• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - E. F. Shumacher
• “Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” - Mahatma Gandhi
• "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
• "Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons." - Sarah J. Maas
• "We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland
• "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe
• "Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it." - Harold S. Hulbert
• "For the love of money is the root of all evil." - 1 Timothy 6:10, King James Version of the Bible
• "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
• "Ideas spread because they are good at spreading, not because they are inherently valuable." - Me
• "School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is." - Ivan Illich
• “Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go. Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere. The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.
• "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." - Thomas S. Monsen
• "Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently, or effectively." - R. D. Clyde
• "The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach." - Meladee McCarty
• "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly
• "My child is not defective." - Steve Hargadon
• "You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence." - Abraham Lincoln
• "Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." - John W. Gardner
• "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin
• "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling
• "When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become." - Louis Pasteur
• "In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." - Lloyd Alexander
• “There’s really one good question to gauge the outcome of a student’s educational experience. Does the student want to learn more?" - Seymour Sarason
• "Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us." - John Taylor Gatto
• "I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive." - John W. Gardner
• "Stretching people's minds is part of educating, but always in terms of a democratic goal. That means you have to trust people's ability to develop their capacity for working collectively to solve their own problems." - Myles Horton
• "Upon the subject of education... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in." - Abraham Lincoln
• "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in." - Rachel Carson
• "We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him." - Henry David Thoreau
• "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." - Isaac Asimov
• "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
• "If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation." - Chinese saying
• "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King
• "Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom." - Albert Einstein
• "One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure." - John W. Gardner
• "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." - Fred Rogers
• "I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain
• "Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington
• "People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success is achieved." - Anne Sullivan
• "How you treat a child is more important than what you teach a child." - Pat Farenga quoting John Holt
• "Not everything worthwhile can be measured, and not everything that can be measured is worthwhile."
• "The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. To improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, rather than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." - Bill Beattie
• "One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." - Carl Jung
• "Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Nine tenths of education is encouragement." - Anatole France
• "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair.
• "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Unknown
• "Almost all education has a political motive." - Bertrand Russell
• "I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." - Agatha Christie
• "Human beings are curious by nature." - Aristotle