Daniel Greenberg Quotes

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

Common Core is a big win for education.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.

We need to reform our educational systems even though the Americans tell us to.

The world has changed but our school systems haven't.

We have to fix the education system.

It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.

To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.