"Each student has a different story, and it can affect their learning, so I think it’s really important to understand their point of view."
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"A good life would be having people that support me and being able to financially support myself, and being happy - even though that’s not exactly always something that you can be because of whatever problems that are going on in life."
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I think school in its ideal form provides a variety of opportunities, and provides a belief in the innate capacity of every child. Schools that have a variety of opportunities for individuals to flourish and then see every child as having potential and capacity really can make a huge difference for a child. I don't think that's how most schools work... We say that school is empowering, but largely we act in very controlling ways. So we use the language of empowerment, but we use actions of control.
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School should help her know herself. It should help her know her power. It should help her find her sense of responsibility and community. It should offer her access to inspirational guides. It should offer her skills to be able to fully embrace and utilize the information that exists in the world, and it should offer her access to great thinkers and great teachers, and the intersection of ideas.
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"When I started Galileo I thought what I was doing was providing access to academic areas like science, and engineering, and visual arts. But it turned out that what we were really doing was creating an environment. An environment that collectively, between curriculum design, classroom ritual, and overall community design, creates a special space that allows people's best selves to emerge. And ideally that's what schools could do too. It's harder, I know, but that's what I would love to see happen in schools."
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"Our vision of education is enabling students to find their passion and purpose while they’re in school... To dream and to build. Those two things are what I want school to give students the opportunity to do... Ultimately, if a school can get someone ready to live an extraordinary, not an ordinary life, it has been successful."
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"I think schools should exist to enable and empower people to grow into the best version of themselves and into good citizens... I hope we give people a sense of why participating in our democracy is important and build some motivation to participate. And I hope we also learn to be supportive human beings to one another."
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"I think we grow up in school and it socializes us and it educates us, and it keeps us going in the right direction."
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"I think school is supposed to teach you how to be able to function on your own after you graduate, I don't know if PALY does a great job of that but I think that is what school, in general, is supposed to do.
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"I also think that the standards here are a lot higher than other places, which in some ways pushes people to perform better, but it only goes up to a certain extent until the difficulty and challenge becomes miserable, so finding that balance is a key to achieving, and being successful.
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"I also think that as society evolved to become more advanced in terms of technology and different aspects, they wanted to...educate kids so that they can keep up and contribute... But, I also think that schools are targeted - they’re aimed towards a very specific range of fields in the future, and I don’t think it applies to everyone.
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"What I would want from a school would be for them not to kill my creativity. I would want school to expand on the learning and not be so focused on grades, but about the creative process of learning.
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""Another big role of education reform is just exposure to people really different from you. Different backgrounds, different views. Learning how to deal with that is really important."
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"For me, the concept of freedom without choice is an illusion. If you don't really have a choice, then you're not really free. At it's core, that's what I hope for my daughter."
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"Yes. Humanity. Schools should teach humanity, because if we would have humanity, we wouldn’t have present situations in the world which we have, which are above and beyond any reasoning. After the horror of the wars, we should have learned something. We didn’t learn anything.
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"Well, first of all we need education. But, I think what’s more important than the education is your surroundings, and getting to know more people and having those people skills to help you survive in the real world.
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"The purpose of schooling I think is to help people learn more about the world. It’s important for people to know about history and what’s happened, but I think it’s more important to know how people can apply what they’re learning in school to the broader world."
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"If you had to choose one thing about your high experience to change what would it be and why? I would probably do stuff that makes me happy and not something that I feel it’s a pressure to do. So, just join more clubs and take advantage of everything that we have. And not be afraid to ask questions."
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"[Schools] have all the opportunities that you need, but I don’t think that people are actually taking advantage of it. They’re taking it for granted. Coming from a school where you don’t have all those things, I think that they should make it more of something they should push on kids."
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"...people always say that school is setting up for your life later on, but I feel like even when you’re in high school it should be exciting for you — not just waiting for the future."
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