“To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.” IfsWorldTryingMadeRealSchoolLastsTeachTechnologyProgressCenturyDrivenPreparationReal WorldObsolete Author:Adora Svitak
“Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.” LooksSchoolActorsSceneTrainingProgramPreparationCreamTraining Programs Author:Rachel Hoffman
“Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.” IfsHelpingRunningSchoolDemocracyStudentsSucceedHelping OthersPreparationGrades Author:William Glasser
“I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.” WorldYearsChildrenLongReasonSchoolLastsEasyBreakEndurePainfulEmploymentPreparationThirteen Book:A Language Older Than Words Source: A Language Older Than Words
“The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!” SchoolPerfectRecordsDogStudentsDrugPoliceCamerasPrisonVideoAll TimeChainsPreparationLinksMetalsRegimesFenceComprehensiveLockersPosingUndercoverSniffingVideo CamerasInformantsWhereaboutsMetal DetectorsChain Links Author:Charles Eisenstein