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“The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
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“When kids know that you refuse to let them fail … they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like, ‘You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.’”
— Geoffrey CanadaGeoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
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“Every child deserves a champion — an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.”
— Rita F. PiersonRita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
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“You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.”
— Rose GeorgeRose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.
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“Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.”
— BonoBono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)
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“If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.”
— Ron FinleyRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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“In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.”
— Sugata MitraSugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
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“Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.”
— Bruce FeilerBruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family
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“Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.”
— Bruce FeilerBruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family
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“The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. … It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.”
— Bruce FeilerBruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family
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“We are all born artists. … Almost everything kids do is art.”
— Young-ha KimYoung-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!
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“A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.”
— Young-ha KimYoung-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!
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“If a young learner thinks that all viruses have DNA, that's not going to ruin their chances of success in science. But if a young learner can't understand anything in science and learns to hate it, [then] that will.”
— Tyler DeWittTyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun
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“When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.”
— Mitch ResnickMitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code
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“Young people today have lots of experience … interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.”
— Mitch ResnickMitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code
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“More than 95 percent of these children [in orphanages] have living parents. … The primary drivers behind institutionalization are poverty, disability and ethnicity.”
— Georgette MulheirGeorgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages
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“The systematic institutionalization of children … is the one form of child abuse that we could eradicate in our lifetime.”
— Georgette MulheirGeorgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages
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“The adoption process [in 1960s Britain was] an industrious, utilitarian solution: the government, the farmer; the adopting parents, the consumer; the mother, the Earth; and the child, the crop.”
— Lemn SissayLemn Sissay: A child of the state
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“You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats … the child of the state.”
— Lemn SissayLemn Sissay: A child of the state
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“Looked after children — fostered, adopted or orphaned — [often] grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground.”
— Lemn SissayLemn Sissay: A child of the state
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