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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.”

Years Today School America Education Millions High School Adults Population Finished Quarters Michigan

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.”

Believe Art Important School Young Education Position Adults Curriculum School Curriculum

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.”

World Littles Self Kids Education Adults Guidance Civilized Affected Peers

Author:William Damon

“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.”

“Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.”

Ideas Form Education Events Fields Adults Contact Plus Chemistry Experimentation Adult Education

Author:Felix Morley

“We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.”

Humans Kind Children School Reading Human Beings Education Economic Standards Adults Increase Our Children Definitions Score Principal Economic Systems Chalk Yardsticks

Author:Kenneth Keniston

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

Men Children Long Has Beens Given Chance Education Teaching Middle Ignorance Development Habit Adults Contrary Ignorant Conventions Continuing Arrested Middle Aged Cocoons

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”

Children Education Responsibility Learning Lessons Adults Life Lesson Not Alone

Book:The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours