Quotes About Engagement

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

If children have interest, then Education happens

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.