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When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making…

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Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their…
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators,…
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If…
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his…
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like…
Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they…
You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our…
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people;…
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

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Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my… — Robert Ballard
Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe. — Toyohiko Kagawa
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. — Anthony Doerr
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting… — Diane Ravitch
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science… — David Gross
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to… — Robert Ballard

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