Bases Quote by Carol Ann Tomlinson

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

— Muhammad Ali

Life teaches us the greatest lessons and gives us the best gifts. We may not have control over all the tests, but you can…

— Allyson Partridge

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

— Diane Ravitch

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

There are times in life when you are tested before you've had a chance to learn the lesson.

— Anonymous

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

— Terry Brooks

I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I…

— Howard Gardner

“Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions”

— Anonymous

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This…

— Joko Beck

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

— Edward Carpenter

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

— George Carlin