Diane Ravitch Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.72, Basic Books

• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Curriculum

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Responsibility

• Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Children, Educational

  "Education and the election: it's still all about the money" Lucy Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2016.

• Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Educational, Ideas

• What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Hurt, Children

• Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Educational, Believe

• We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Firsts, Bans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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