As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
• Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
• This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
• I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
• Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
• To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
• If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
• If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
• I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.