“If what makes him happy is having a big family, or living in New York, or going out to Antarctica to dig holes and measure how fast the ice is melting because of global warming - I would consider him as having a good life. ”
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"I think the quality of education is important. If students are just doing packets and we are not following up with them or showing them how to solve problems in different ways, then we are not actually doing our jobs as teachers. "
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"When I see him across the classroom and he has that smile that lights up his whole face, I want him to be doing something with his life that makes him feel like that every day."
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"I feel like so often we forget that children's own opinions of themselves matter."
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I want so many things for her that she hasn’t even experienced yet. The biggest things are that I want her to show kindness - because kindness and compassion makes the world better - and I want her to be curious, and courageous, and to explore all the many things this world has to offer. I want her to challenge herself and to enjoy the merits of hard work. And I want her to love herself as she is, even with her imperfections.
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Ultimately I want him to be happy and to see himself as worthy and be proud of who he is. I'd especially like him to be proud of his heritage because off of the reservation he’s going to face a lot of criticism and racism, especially in Arizona.
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I think a school’s success depends on the environment. Is there a mission to help? Does it come down from the principal? Do teachers really believe in it? How much are teachers willing to either help or go out of their way?
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"I would just want them to be so happy and have happiness in their life whatever that means for them...have all the tools possible to access their greatest success and greatest goals and really feel proud of themselves in whatever capacity that is"
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In the future, how many specialized knowledge workers do you need? Nobody knows. So what do we do with the masses of students that are getting educated and there’s no middle-class types of labor anymore? That’s where this conversation gets really big and confusing.
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"If there was a perfect school, they would definitely try to learn the child and adapt an educational or learning model that would work best with that child."
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Being a teacher is hard. Sometimes I wake up and I tell myself, ‘today you’re going to do something really hard. But you have to do it the right way, because it matters.’ And I think the only way for a school to function at its highest level and reach every child is to have every member of that community wake up and say, ‘today you're going to do something really hard, but you’re going to do it right because it’s worth doing.’
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The quality of schools available in low income areas is so absurdly poor, but the standard we’re working toward is often far from perfect. I mean, do we really want these stressful models to be the model for low income kids or all kids just because that’s what all high income kids have? I think that’s really flawed too.
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"I think at the core of what we all want is for people to feel like they have agency and the opportunities to build the life that they want and that they are safe and accepted in their community, but our culture doesn’t talk about that in those ways"
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It comes down to the fact that once that student is out of your classroom or out of your school, then you no longer have responsibility for that child. “On to the next one.”... That mindset comes from the way educators are pressured to make their students succeed. Educators already have a million things to do - things in and out of their job description. With all these logistics, it can make you lose perspective.
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You’re never going to be isolated in a vacuum, and schools have an important place in that because it collects groups of kids together. I was an only child and spending time at home I was often not with other people. So school was really my chance to learn how to navigate social situations.
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"Our schooling has this incredible role in developing the people who shape our world. So in my mind, I want these people to be joyful, creative, interesting, self-possessed people who want to work for a better world and I want that to be accessible to everyone in our education system."
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"The purpose of education is to give people the opportunity to explore and understand what is important to them and how what they value fits into improving the world and the environment that they are in."
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"I believe the purpose of education is to transform your life in a positive way. I think education can and should, at its best, expand your world and make you more human and help you be more compassionate and more aware... It can enable you to bring that humanity and life to the center and purpose of everything you do."
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"Of course kids are going to try to satisfy their parents but then they aren’t focusing on what they want to do so I feel that with my kids, I would want them to be happy with whatever they are doing. If they are painting, if they are singing - whatever it is – I want them to thrive at that career."
"I want my children to be happy in whatever they chose to do and who they chose to be with – of course would love to see them have families but the most important thing really is to be happy. That is, to me, the one constant that I want to run through their lives – not that they won’t have difficulties along the way, everyone does, but the key to life is to feel content"
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