Key Quotes:

“Democracy is a complicated concept and IDEA is not about a kind of simple notion of democracy equaling only that everyone will sit around and vote about how to spend their time.” (5:38)

“The world is a complicated place that adults have to help young people make sense of. Education is about negotiating what is real freedom. What are structures that create freedom and serve us well.” (7:28)

“The lack of engagement of young people is a clear warning sign. We shouldn’t talk about the drop-out rate, we should talk about the “failure to engage-rate” (12:53)

“Engagement is the beginning place because it’s about relationship, it’s about context, it’s about paying attention to one another and everything else kind of stems from that place.” (13:29)

“Learning and democratic education has to in itself be a human endeavor. There is a place for healthy adult authority and different cultural learnings.” (15:38)