Quotes About Progressive Education

#1. Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

Shelby Steele

#2. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

#3. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

John Wooden

#4. A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Caroline Pratt

#5. For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

Adam Smith

#6. The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Caroline Pratt

#7. Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

Caroline Pratt

#8. If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

Fatema Mernissi

#10. This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.

Caroline Pratt

#11. Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Caroline Pratt

#12. Don't dream your life, but live your dream

Mark Twain

#13. Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#14. From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.

Caroline Pratt

#15. The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Caroline Pratt

#16. Childhood's work is learning, and it is in his play ... that the child works at his job.

Caroline Pratt

#17. Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

India.Arie

#18. Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

Ellen Key

#19. I don't need Mr. Perfect...I already have you.

Jane Green

#20. A school's job [is] to begin education.

Caroline Pratt

#21. It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

Caroline Pratt

#22. I believe I've got it covered," Malik said with an admirably straight face and smooth tone. "But I wouldn't mind taking a break before getting to the next round. Grabbing a bite to eat."
Ethan glanced at me, questioning eyebrow arched. Have you infected him?
You're hilarious, I said.

Chloe Neill

#23. In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

Caroline Pratt

#24. Children ... need most of the same things adults need
consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

Caroline Pratt

#25. The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.

Caroline Pratt

#26. A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question; it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.

John Dewey

#27. Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Caroline Pratt

#29. I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'

Erin Gruwell

#30. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#31. Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

Thomas Piketty

#32. Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Jonathan Kozol

#33. Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Abraham Maslow

#34. The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Caroline Pratt