The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further …

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival t…

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time…

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have h…

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in th…

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who …

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and c…

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot