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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.