Arcs Quote by Amanda Ripley

Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just…

— Amanda Ripley

“Kids meet the expectations you set for them,”

— Amanda Ripley

Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events;…

— Amanda Ripley

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The…

— Amanda Ripley

The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt…

— Amanda Ripley

“Since 9/11, the U.S. government has sent over $23 billion to states and cities in the name of homeland security. Almost none of that…

— Amanda Ripley

“One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of…

— Amanda Ripley

“Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one…

— Amanda Ripley

My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the…

— Amanda Ripley

“In almost every other developed country, the schools with the poorest students had more teachers per student; the opposite was true in only four…

— Amanda Ripley

“These days, we tend to think of disasters as acts of God and government. Regular people only feature into the equation as victims, which…

— Amanda Ripley

“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire…

— Amanda Ripley