MyFavoriteQuotes

"Education policy touches on a mosaic of American values--religious, ethnic, professional, social, and economic--that often clash in politics." (Wirt and Kirst, p. 75).

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert Einstein

“Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys. We should ridicule a merchant who said that he had sold a great many goods although no one had bought any. But perhaps there are teachers who think they have done a good day’s teaching irrespective of what pupils have learned.” John Dewey

“Writing is the most profound way of codifying your thoughts, the best way of learning from yourself, who you are, and what you believe” (p. 43). Warren Bennis

"Policy as a chain of decisions stretching from the statehouse to the classroom is a byproduct of many games and relationships; no one is responsible for the whole thing" (Firestone, 1989, p. 23)

"Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations" (Kouzes and Posner, 1995).

"From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we pay a hidden enormous price. We can no longer see the consequences of our actions; we lose our intrinsic sense of connection to a larger whole" (Senge, 1990, p. 1).

"Leadership is a process wherein leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of mobility and motivation." (Burns, 1978)

"Leaders are people who do the right thing; manager do things right." (Bennis)

"Our education system is really better at training than educating. And training orients people toward the bottom line." (Bennis, 2003, p. 41).

"In a time of dramatic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists" (Eric Hoffer, quoted in Bennis)

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." Max DePree, The Art of Leadership 1988

"Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention." (Neil Postman, The End of Education, 1995, p. 7)

Bruner, after describing the lack of "intersubjectivity" (the human ability to understand the minds of others, whether through language, gesture or other means) in schooling, says, "I believe that one of the most important gifts that a culture psychology can give to education is a refomulation of this impoverished conception. For only a very small part of educating takes place on such a one-way street--and it is probably one of the least successful parts." (The Culture of Education, p. 21).

"A system of education must help those growing up in a culture find an identity within that culture" (Bruner, 1996, p. 42).