Quotes About Education

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them.

As in typical factories, high schools and higher education in particular are organized around the division of labor. In high schools, the day is usually segmented into regular chunks of time. When the bell rings, everyone changes task (and often rooms) and starts doing something else instead. Teachers specialize in particular subjects and move through the day from class to class in separate segments.

education doesn't need to be reformed—it needs to be transformed.

The key to raising achievement is to recognize that teaching and learning is a relationship.

To be globally competitive, developed countries must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries. And that something is certainly not great test scores in a few subjects or the so-called basic skills."4

We have found that many of our students who were not successful before coming to Boston Arts Academy find their way to engaging with school through the arts, because school isn't just another thing that they hate and are bad at.

Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman and polymath, knew that a balanced, liberal education for all was essential for the proper flourishing of the American dream.

in January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts.

Education is not a linear process of preparation for the future: it is about cultivating the talents and sensibilities through which we can live our best lives in the present and create the best futures for us all.

All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past.

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

Los procesos educativos actuales no tienen en cuenta los estilos individuales de aprendizaje ni el talento. De ese modo, ofenden el principo de individualidad.

If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

was, "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never produce anything original." The second was, "Great education depends on great teaching.

Una buena educación depende de una buena enseñanza».

What if, freed from the what-has-always-beens that hold some schools back, and from the standardized testing that has paralyzed our nation's discourse and practice, a school launches the inventors, artists, and change makers who will act boldly and courageously in the face of a changing world?

El principal papel de un director escolar no es mandar y controlar, sino estimular de forma creativa el ambiente.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools.

Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more than a thousand signs, created compound signs to convey new information, and showed a significant understanding of spoken English.9

All students are unique individuals with their own hopes, talents, anxieties, fears, passions, and aspirations. Engaging them as individuals is the heart of raising achievement. As

El juego es absolutamente fundamental para el aprendizaje: es el fruto natural de la curiosidad y de la imaginación.

Los buenos profesores desempeñan cuatro funciones principales: motivan a sus alumnos, facilitan el aprendizaje, tienen expectativas con respecto a ellos y los capacitan para creer en sí mismos.