Inspirational quotes - Educational change

My final installment of inspiring quotes (for now).  I'd like to dedicate these to Nova Scotia's Minister of Education, the staff at the Department Education, and staff and elected officials at all of the school boards in Nova Scotia. My wish for you this year is that you find a way to rise above political agendas, bridge differences and start working together to make our education system the best for what should be your first priority - our kids.

Rhonda

We need a metamorphosis of education - from the cocoon a butterfly should emerge. Improvement does not give us a butterfly only a faster caterpillar.

Learning to Learn

How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?' … the answer is. 'It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed….they're' immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.

Peter Senge

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards.'

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

John Dewey

Much educational change is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Anon

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers…creativity above fact regurgitation…individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance….. And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

Tom Peters , Author 'Re-imagine'