Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

The road to success is paved with doubters and haters.

Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip.

If you have not known love, then the only reason not to die is that life will get better or god exists. If you don't believe in either, perhaps it is time for you to go.

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

His youth carried his words and lit the room with an optimism. “India is like our home, ” he said, “our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.