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

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.

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.

Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

see the things that you want as already yours

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.