First day of school Quote by Amanda Ripley

“In Korea, math moved fluidly. When the teacher asked questions, the kids answered as if math were a language that they knew by heart.…

— Amanda Ripley

“Finally, it was clear that the real innovation in Korea was not happening in the government or the public schools. It was happening in…

— Amanda Ripley

“So what were your favorite subjects in school?" "School?" He leaned back in his chair as though he needed the extra space to think…

— Janette Rallison

“This was one of the problems with math department graduates. When it came to areas they weren't interested in, their memory was surprisingly short-lived.”

— Haruki Murakami

“rigor mattered. Koreans understood that mastering difficult academic content was important. They didn’t take shortcuts, especially in math. They assumed that performance was mostly…

— Amanda Ripley

“I am certain that Eric will get the job. His career path is very straight, like that of an arrow to its target. If…

— Weike Wang

“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened…

— Amanda Ripley

“On the second night here, the Koreans played and the streets had to be closed down to traffic for half a day before the…

— Tom Humphries

“I hardly saw Osbert that week because he went to school, unlike Isaac and Edmond and Piper, who were supposed to be homeschooled, which…

— Meg Rosoff

“Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.” “What an accomplishment. No one has ever done that before.”

— S.A. Stovall

“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have…

— Jodi Picoult

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance