Quotes About Change In Schools

#1. The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

Adam Fletcher

#2. We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

Katharine Hayhoe

#3. Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

Peter Drucker

#4. Late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.

Glenn Beck

#5. By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

Ban Ki-moon

#6. There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change.

Jim Knight

#7. I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Morgan Brittany

#8. Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

Sara Bareilles

#10. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.

Joseph Fink

#11. the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world.

Clark Aldrich

#12. Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

John Cage

#13. Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

Estelle Morris

#14. Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

Melinda Gates

#15. The third aspect of change is a systematic development of respectful and inspiring working conditions for teachers and principals in Finnish schools.

Pasi Sahlberg

#16. I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

Justin Guarini

#17. Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

Andy Hargreaves

#18. Tragedy is the violation of love.

Frederick Lenz

#19. So much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

Emily Giffin

#20. Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

Susan Ford

#21. What teachers do actually matters. Their ideas count. They are agents for change in our schools.

Denny Taylor

#22. Rules of science." Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head.

Magnus Flyte

#23. Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Newt Gingrich

#24. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

Alice Waters

#25. The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Seamus Heaney

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

John Dewey

#27. Come on,"he meowed to Greystripe."Let's go home.

Erin Hunter

#28. The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

Kim Young-ha

#29. There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

Leonard Baskin

#30. How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

Geoffrey Canada

#31. In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Chuck Norris

#32. Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

Seth Godin

#33. Borrowed from my former superintendent of schools: 'Change is inevitable, growth is optional.

Robert L. Hunton

#34. The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

J. Michael Straczynski

#35. If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

Clare Balding