“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“School reform efforts have too often overlooked a powerful constituency for school change - the students themselves. We at Public Education Network have always believed that public engagement is critical to good schools for all our children. Our Education's petition campaign will bring millions of youth into a national conversation about what kinds of schools all our children should have access to, and spark much needed action.”
Wendy Puriefoy
“China has undertaken several reforms related to the safety net, healthcare reform, pension reform, education reform in the hope to reduce precautionary savings.”
Zhou Xiaochuan
“We all want comprehensive immigration reform, but the students also need a better education and a better curriculum.”
Carlos Garcia
“Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.”
Mae West
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.”
Diane Ravitch
