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Schools Quotes by Diane Ravitch
- 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…
- 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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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for… — Dan Benishek
- It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools,… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days. — Bjork
- When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good… — Lewis Black
- If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and… — Michael Bloomberg
- It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett
- When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates… — Bono