Quotes About Community

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I'm learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they're nice little guys who are usually in college, and they're kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you guys and I'm learning from you every day.