Quotes About Change

Or, I don't know, how about this: the important thing isn't what's gone or lost, it's seeing and knowing what's still there and how it can grow.

I have changed this world. I have found my place. The world is different because I was in it. This is what we should all want.

Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?" "I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me.

the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write. The illiterate will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Consider

the longer we wait to start a conversation around doing school "differently," instead of simply "better," the more we're putting our kids at risk.

that the new opportunities for learning require us to articulate a fundamental revision of the value of school and the roles of teachers and classrooms. The

if you're waiting for the Twitter workshop, you're missing the point.

can. If it's just about tests to graduate, grades to get into college, and scores for international comparisons — which, in large part, it is right now — school is about to be disrupted big time. I

How can we begin to move schools to become places of more relevant, connected, creative learning? Even with a plan, it won't be easy.

Eric Hoffer sums up where our emphasis should be in schools right now: "In times of great change, learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Let

there's no question that a major moment of unlearning and relearning is at hand for educators of all stripes.

Will Richardson

It's somewhat ironic (and frustrating), then, that well into what is arguably one of the biggest, most transformative periods in history we still feel the need to point to a digital classroom in schools.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.