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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.

— Dave Barry

It's not about the test. It's about how you pass the test.

— Mike Espy

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has been unnecessary…

— Howard Gardner

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from…

— Edwin Land

...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and…

— Anonymous

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to…

— William A. Henry III

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

— Kinky Friedman

“Ever notice how the abbreviation for Testament is Test? I noticed this when I woke up and saw the tabs on my bible. You…

— Amanda Penland

“It would be impossible to understand the persistence and vehemence of these arguments against test scores without understanding the political purpose they serve. Arguments…

— Thomas Sowell

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material…

— Libba Bray