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School Quotes by Diane Ravitch
- Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should…
- Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
- The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail,…
- American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may…
- Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play…
- Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
- If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the…
- When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.
- The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a…
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- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles