Stop Stealing Dreams Quotes

“Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“Passion can overcome fear - the fear of losing, of failing, of being traditional.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“Education isn't a problem until it serves as a buffer rom the world and a refuge from the risk of failure.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

“Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.”
― Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams