Quotes About Progress

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.

Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that's exactly what we need.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

Many of the jobs that current systems of education were designed for are fast disappearing.

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

According to Carl Rogers, the burgeoning of personal growth was stimulated by the decline of organized religious beliefs and the need to find alternative sources of meaning in existence

One of the most basic reasons for thinking that it's too late to be who you are truly capable of being is the belief that life is linear.

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.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Assessment has several roles. The first is diagnostic, to help teachers understand students' aptitude and levels of development. The second is formative, to gather information on students' work and activities and to support their progress. The third is summative, which is about making judgments on overall performance at the end of a program of work.

African proverb, "Life is like eating an elephant; you need to do it one mouthful at a time.

El mundo nunca había cambiado tan rápido como ahora. Nuestra mayor esperanza de cara al futuro es desarrollar un nuevo paradigma de la capacidad para llegar a una nueva dimensión de la existencia humana

entender que el fracaso forma parte de la vida».

La tercera limitación está en nuestra escasa comprensión del potencial que tenemos para crecer y cambiar.

tienes que hacer?». La chica contestaba: «Tengo que buscar el mínimo común denominador». El padre preguntaba: «¿Todavía lo están buscando? Ya estaban haciéndolo cuando yo iba al colegio». Sé cómo se sentía. Sin

It can be just as helpful to focus on the immediate next steps. Beginning the journey, and being willing to explore various pathways, can be as productive as setting out with a final destination in mind.

stronger ways at different times in our lives. Because of this, we get multiple opportunities for new growth and development, and multiple opportunities to revitalize latent capacities.

We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five.

The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow.

We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins.

Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2070. No one has any idea of what the world will look like in ten years' time, let alone in 2070. There are two major drivers of change—technology and demography.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.