“An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.”

“Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in the real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime.”

“The primary obligation of educators is to assist in the realization of each student's full humanity.”

“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”

“Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.”

“The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”