Quotes About Participation

there is certainly a greater degree of fluidity and access to participation than at traditional educational institutions.' So we re-ask our question: Are these Internet sites "learning institutions"? And, if so, what do these institutions tell us about the more traditional learning institutions such as schools, universities, graduate schools?

socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of its $50 million initiative

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result

socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by the MacArthur

individuals who contributed their time and energy.

relationships between and among groups of students, faculty, and others across campus or around the world? That larger challenge-to harness and focus the participatory learning methods in which our students are so accomplished-is only now beginning to be introduced and typically in relatively rare and isolated formats. Most university education, certainly, is founded on ideas of individual training, discrete disciplines, and isolated achievement

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.

Except for a monster, no man who actually participated in such events (rather than "merely" organized from far away) can concede guilt and yet, as the young prison officer in Düsseldorf put it, "consent to remain alive".

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

And so this government of the United States was brilliantly designed to keep that weakness of human nature in check, but it required the people to participate daily, to be vigilant, and they have not. It demanded that they behave as though their government was their servant, but they have not. In their silence the people of the United States have spoken. While they slept the servant has become their master.

Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back.

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To