„The pass-word now is lostTo that initiation full and free;Daily we pay the costOf our slow schooling for divine degree.“

— Margaret Fuller

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„We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.“
— Margaret Mead
„Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?“
— John Cage
„We gather here in memory of 20 beautiful children and six remarkable adults. They lost their lives in a school that could have been any school in a quiet town full of good and decent people that could be any town in America.Here in Newtown, I come to offer the love and prayers of a nation. I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts.I can only hope it helps for you to know that you’re not alone in your grief, that our world, too, has been torn apart, that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you. We’ve pulled our children tight.And you must know that whatever measure of comfort we can provide, we will provide. Whatever portion of sadness that we can share with you to ease this heavy load, we will gladly bear it. Newtown, you are not alone.“
— Barack Obama
„[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive…. our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."“
— Peter F. Drucker