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“As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.”

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.”

School Teacher Design Innovation Driven Fund Drivers Evaluate Alberta

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.”

Should Heart Country School Girl Birth Should Have India Innovation Clean Campaigns Closest Toilets Cleanliness Sanitation Gandhiji

Author:Narendra Modi

“The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.”

Use School Design Innovation Determine Etc Users Disruptive

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.”

People Has Beens Stills School Progress Teaching Fields Materials Areas Innovation Textbooks Curriculum Revision Elementary School

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.”

Humans School Force Liberty Failing Performances Innovation Competition Libertarian Enterprise Sparks Libertarianism Public School

Author:Bob Lutz

“In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads.”

Problem School Teaching Projects Innovation Absence Disconnected

Author:Michael Fullan

“It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.”

School Education Roles Economy Innovation Surprise Productivity Communist Incentives Public School Schooled Public Education Market Economy School System Schools And Education

Author:Albert Shanker

“Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.”

Children Self Government School Young Innovation Council Young Children Self-government

Book:The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love

Source: The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love

“If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.”

Ifs School Answers Poor Disease Empathy Optimism Innovation Surprise Pessimist

Author:Bill Gates

“[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.”

Source: Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence