Deana Moss

“All good teachers will tell you that the most important quality they bring to their teaching is their love for the children. But what does that mean? It means that before we can teach them, we need to delight in them. Someone once said that children need one thing in order to succeed in life: someone who is crazy about them. We need to find a way to delight in all our students. We may be the only one in their lives to do so. We need to look for the best, expect the best, find something in each child that we can truly treasure.... If children recognize that we have seen their genius, who they really are, they will have the confidence and resilience to take risks in learning. I am convinced that many learning and social difficulties would disappear if we learned to see the genius in each child and then created a learning environment that encourages it to develop.”
― Steven Levy

“The opportunity for our education system is to use content, concepts, and real-world phenomena to help our kids develop critical skills and inspire them to pursue challenging career paths.”
― Tony Wagner, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

“The goal must be to choose the academic content selectively so as to create the required foundation for lifelong learning, without letting the quest for content coverage overwhelm the development of core competencies.”
― Tony Wagner, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

“The mind of an engaged kid is a sponge; a mind that is lectured to is a leaky sieve.”
― Tony Wagner, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era