Educational Reform Quotes

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.