Deborah Meier Quotes

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There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

Deborah Meier

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Deborah Meier

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Deborah Meier

Deborah Meier

Deborah Meier

Born: April 6, 1931 (age 94)

Bio: Deborah Meier is an American educator often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement.

Known for:

The power of their ideas (1995)
In Schools We Trust (2002)
Will Standards Save Public Education (2000)

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