"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller

"The secret of CHANGE is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." ~ Socrates (470 - 399 BC)

"The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same." ~ Richard Rohr

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." ~ Thomas Sowell

"The most potent force for change…is the growing recognition of millions of adults that their own impoverished expectations and frustrations came, in large measure, from their schooling." ~ Marilyn Ferguson

"School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged." ~ John Taylor Gatto

"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children!" ~ Malcolm X